When the 24-year-old Richard Strauss, assistant conductor in Munich, began the composition of his third tone poem in the summer of 1888, he saw himself close to the aspiration prescribed by his mentor Alexander Ritter: to become the successor of Richard Wagner as a musical dramatist. Strauss had already been working on the text of his first opera Guntram for a year and additionally devoted himself to programmatic orchestral works oriented to the musical language of Liszt and Wagner in order to p...

• Vorwort / Preface
• Einleitung / Introduction
• Faksimiles / Facsimiles
• Tod und Verklärung op. 24
• Kritischer Bericht / Critical Report
• I. Quellenbestandsliste / List of Sources
• II. Quellenbeschreibungen / Source Descriptions
• III. Quellenbewertung / Source Criticism
• IV. Editionsweise und Gestaltung des Notentextes / Editorial Methods and Conventions of Presentation
• V. Editorische Eingriffe und Lesarten / Editorial Interventions and Variant Readings
• Abkürzungen und Sigl...