Please select here ... Family and childhood School, early works The Wagner dilemma Study years Poems without text Conductor Guntram and Pauline Composer of songs Munich revisited Berlin Sinfonia domestica Opera revolution Garmisch Operatic joviality First World War Vienna State Opera House Salzburg Festival World tours and thoughts of home Resignation and return Epilogue with Hofmannsthal Shadows of politics Second World War Final years "Artistic legacy"