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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]
Only 88 compositions by the German composer Richard Strauss (1864–1949) have been assigned opus numbers; these numbers are shown in the table below in the column "Op." Two volumes of a catalogue of the remaining works were published by Erich Hermann Mueller von Asow (1892–1964) in 1959. [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.
Jun 11, 2024 · Explore the best Richard Strauss works featuring 10 masterpieces including 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' featured in ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.
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.
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.
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 accused of being cold and unemotional, yet his music is anything but. Michael Kennedy – in his final Gramophone article – surveys the composer’s legacy.
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.
Salome, Op. 54, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss. The libretto is Hedwig Lachmann 's German translation of the 1891 French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde, edited by the composer. Strauss dedicated the opera to his friend Sir Edgar Speyer. [1]
