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Richard Georg Strauss ( German: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈʃtʁaʊs]; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer and conductor best known for his tone poems and operas. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt. [1]
Jun 16, 2024 · Richard Strauss was an outstanding German Romantic composer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His symphonic poems of the 1890s and his operas of the following decade have remained an indispensable feature of the standard repertoire.
Aug 11, 2023 · Richard Strauss (1864-1949) was a German conductor and composer of both innovative late-Romantic and Modernist music. He is best known for his symphonic poems and operas like Salome and Elektra, both of which caused a sensation.
Jun 11, 2024 · Explore the best Richard Strauss works featuring 10 masterpieces including 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' featured in ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.
Richard Strauss was a famously private man, hiding his passion under a veneer of affability. Yet a clue to his temperament can be found in two great musical loves of his life. First is Mozart, whose music was a benign influence as Strauss came to maturity in nineteenth century Munich.
Jun 16, 2024 · Richard Strauss - Composer, Operas, Symphonies: Strauss’s first major achievement was to harness the expressive power of the huge Wagnerian opera orchestra for the concert hall.
Richard Strauss (1864–1949) was one of the most gifted composers of the twentieth century. He composed 'Also Sprach Zarathustra', Der Rosenkavalier and Salome.
Richard Strauss was the most significant German opera composer of the first half of the twentieth century, who established his reputation at the end of the nineteenth century through a series of brilliant orchestral tone poems such as Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration) (1888–9), Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel’...
May 21, 2018 · Richard Strauss. Richard Strauss (1864-1949), the German composer and conductor, is known especially for his operas and symphonic poems linked to his phenomenal mastery of the orchestra. He was the chief exemplar of post-Wagnerian tastes and techniques.
All stories. Richard Strauss – a hero? Searching for clues. Picture: Heribert Schindler. In Ein Heldenleben – A Hero’s Life – Strauss portrayed no one but himself. Yet how heroic was he in real life? He certainly had nothing in common with a hero in the classical sense of the term.
