Behind the amusing pseudonym Hasenöhrl (Rabbit ears) hides the Viennese professor and musicologist Franz Höhrl, author of Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders! (Till Eulenspiegel for a change!), written in 1954. This brilliant arrangement reduces Strauss's gleaming score by a third of its length and to five musicians who have a lot to do to get through it.

Beethoven was so overwhelmed by the success of his Septet Opus 20 that he later declared that it contained a lot of imagination and little art. A judgment disavowed by posterity, this luminous masterpiece would later inspire Schubert.