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Jun 10, 2014 · Politics. Composer Richard Strauss took a prominent post in Hitler’s Germany – but we should not let that ruin our enjoyment of his music, writes Clemency Burton-Hill.
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. Although some of his early Mendelssohnian works, such as the violin concerto (composed 1882) and the first horn concerto (1882–83), are still played, the real ...
Nov 18, 2020 · Wed 18 Nov 2020 06.58 EST. R ichard Strauss (1864-1949) dominated classical music at the turn of the 20th century with a series of works that pushed post-Romanticism to extremes and...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015. Richard Strauss was accused of being cold and unemotional, yet his music is anything but. Michael Kennedy – in his final Gramophone article – surveys the composer’s legacy.
Strauss. Guides. Richard Strauss: 15 facts about the great composer. The great German composer was born 150 years ago in 1864. From Der Rosenkavalier to the revolutionary opera Salome, from Also Sprach Zarathustra to Four Last Songs, Strauss’s music is well worth discovering. 1. A young talent. Richard Strauss was born on 11 June 1864.
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’...
Jun 6, 2014 · June 6, 2014. Richard Strauss, born in Munich 150 years ago this Wednesday, must have laughed over the condemnations, even from many critics, of his opera “ Salome ” after its 1905 premiere in...
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