 Complete the following phrase:  Strauss had arrived at Weimar as Kapellmeister on September 8, 1889, in the residency of the Grand Dukes of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. The Hofkapellmaster chief music director was Eduard Lassen 1830-1904, who welcomed the young Strauss and readily acknowledged his artistic superiority. Strauss finished orchestrating his tone poem Death and Transfiguration soon after his arrival, and on November 11 he premiered his Don Juan. He spent many of his evenings, mostly in the company of Eduard Lassen, at the Künstlerheim, which he depicted to his father as a frivolous means of passing the time, with a charming bar in an old smithy. An artists ball was held there in December, in imitation of the 