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  2. 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]

  3. Jun 7, 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. Strauss’s father, Franz, was the principal horn player of.

  4. 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.

  5. Richard Strauss (1864–1949) was one of the most gifted composers of the twentieth century. He composed 'Also Sprach Zarathustra', Der Rosenkavalier and Salome.

  6. 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.

  7. 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 ...

  8. In 1894, Richard Strauss dedicated the “Four Songs” op.27 (Lovers’ Pledge”, “Tomorrow!” among others) to his bride. This further established his fame as a song composer. After first childlike attempts, Strauss managed to summarize the op.10 “8 Lieder” (1885); (“Dedication” is included among these).

  9. May 21, 2018 · 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.

  10. As he wrote to the composer’s widow Cosima in 1892: ‘It was the most wonderful day of my life’. By then he had struck out on his own as a composer. He followed the prescriptions of Wagner’s disciple, the composer and violinist Alexander Ritter, to pursue the idea of the symphonic poem.

  11. Gramophone. 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.

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