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Jul 5, 2024 · All this week, Donald Macleod explores key figures in the life of Richard Strauss. Today, we escape the real world to meet some of the larger-than-life fictional characters that populated the...
Jul 3, 2024 · All this week, Donald Macleod explores key figures in the life of Richard Strauss.
Jul 4, 2024 · Donald Macleod explores key figures in Strauss’s life. Today, the Nazi High Command, with whom the composer enjoyed what was, for some, an uncomfortably close relationship. Show more
Jul 5, 2024 · This week, Donald Macleod explores key figures in the life of Richard Strauss, including his librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, his “domineering and difficult, yet devoted” wife, the soprano Pauline de Ahna, his “frenemy” Gustav Mahler as well as Strauss’s uncomfortably close relationship with the High Command of the Third Reich.
Jul 15, 2024 · By age 18, Strauss was a conductor, violinist, and pianist — and had already composed 140 works. He lost most of his wealth during World War I and, around the time of World War II, served as President of the German State Music Bureau.
Jul 19, 2024 · Mischa Maisky · Martha Argerich Lily Maisky · Sascha Maisky Verbier Festival Orchestra Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra Charles Dutoit
2 days ago · Ian Hobson is an English pianist, conductor and teacher, and is a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and at Florida State University. His pianistic repertoire spans the baroque to the contemporary, but he specialises in the Romantic repertoire.
