Robert Peters:

>Actually I think that a lot of Strausss and Orffs music is pretty hollow.
>And I see music as a mirror for character: Beethovens fervent energy,
>Mozarts vitality, Schuberts friendliness, Wagners hysterical eccentricity
>- they are there in the movie.  And Strauss and Orff are in their music,
>too.

And so Strauss is "in" the Four Last Songs and a lot of other deeply
felt music.  which, I suspect, Robert would NOT characterize as hollow.
Life is complicated.

As for Schubert, yes, "friendliness " might well be applied to the Trout
Quintet and a lot else, but it misses the mark in Die Winterreise and
the Erl King, among many other examples.

Bernard Chasan