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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...
Jun 11, 2023 · June 11, 2023. By. uDiscover Team. Illustration: uDiscoverMusic. Richard Strauss was an outstanding German Romantic composer. He had two musical gods – Mozart, whose music was a benign...
Richard Strauss' father Franz Joseph Strauss (1822-1905), managed to work his way out of poverty through his musical talent. A member of the Munich Court Opera from 1847, he was considered one of the best French horn players of his time. In 1863 he married Josepha Pschorr (1838-1910) who was a member of the affluent Pschorr brewery family. ...
Richard Strauss (1864–1949) was one of the most gifted composers of the twentieth century, Richard Strauss's position in music's hall of fame nevertheless continues to be hotly debated. View more. Strauss: the man. Richard Strauss: An Appreciation. Richard Strauss: 15 facts about the great composer. Top Strauss pieces.
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...
Richard Strauss, (born June 11, 1864, Munich, Ger.—died Sept. 8, 1949, Garmisch-Partenkirchen), German composer and conductor. Son of a horn player, he began composing at age six. Before he was 20, he had already had major premieres of two symphonies and a violin concerto.
