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  1. Nov 18, 2020 · Tim Ashley. 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...

  2. His first opera was the Wagnerian-influenced Guntram (1892–94, rev. 1940). His next stage work, the satirical comic opera Feuersnot (1900–01; Fire-Famine ), employs impish humour to mock small-town prudery and hypocrisy.

  3. Apr 10, 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.

  4. Elektra, Op. 58, is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, [1] which he adapted from his 1903 drama Elektra. The opera was the first of many collaborations between Strauss and Hofmannsthal. It was first performed at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden on 25 January 1909.

  5. Richard Strauss is born on June 11 in Munich. His father, Franz Joseph, is the principal French horn player in the Munich Court Orchestra. Richard’s musical talent is obvious from an early age: He begins piano lessons at age four, is composing music by the age of six, begins studying violin at age eight, and starts formal composition lessons ...

  6. Artistic director of the Vienna State Opera from 1919 to 1925, Richard Strauss was one of the most famous conductors of his time, an eminent interpreter of his own works, but also of the operas of Mozart and Wagner. His stylistic and aesthetic importance was considerable.

  7. Sep 23, 2005 · In addition to the operas listed above, Strauss composed several other vocal dramatic works and incidental music, and prepared new versions of others, as follows: Romeo and Juliet (incidental music) (23.10.1888 Munich National Theatre)

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