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Strauss was nominated president of the music section, the Reichsmusikkammer. 'I was not consulted', he later wrote. 'I accepted this honorary office because I hoped that I would be able to do some good and prevent worse misfortunes, if from now onwards German musical life were going to be, as it was said, "reorganized" by amateurs and ignorant place-seekers.'