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(Shopkeeper's Mirror), Op. 66, is a 1921 song cycle of 12 songs written by Richard Strauss. The songs were set to texts commissioned by Strauss in a piqued response to a contractual obligation to produce a set of songs for his publisher.Roger Vignoles, booklet notes to Richard Strauss: The Complete Songs, vol. 6 (2012), with Elizabeth Watts (soprano); Hyperion Records CDA 67844 The texts were provided by Berlin literary critic Alfred Kerr, who wrote for Strauss a set of acidic verses ridiculing the music publishing business and containing in-jokes attacking some of Strauss' enemies such as Bote & Bock. The list of titles is:

The cycle has been recorded several times., discography

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