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In 1882, Strauss' friend, Ludwig Thuile, introduced Strauss to the poetry of Gilm contained in the volume Letzte Blätter (Last Pages), published in the year of the poet's death, (and the composer's birth), 1864, which contained the poem, Allerseelen. [2] The Opus 10 songs were all intended for the tenor voice and were dedicated to the ...
An Alpine Symphony (Eine Alpensinfonie), Op. 64, is a tone poem for large orchestra written by German composer Richard Strauss which premiered in 1915. It is one of Strauss's largest non-operatic works; the score calls for about 125 players and a typical performance usually lasts around 50 minutes. [1]
"Zueignung" was the first of eight songs by Strauss published as Op. 10, [4] which were all settings of Gilm's poems. In 1885, they were the first songs Strauss ever published. [ 4 ] The song was given its first public performance at Meiningen in a chamber concert on 5 March 1886 (along with three other Opus 10 songs "Nichts", " Allerseelen ...
"Befreit" rapidly became one of Strauss' more popular songs. Richard Dehmel was less appreciative: "Richard Strauss set the following poem by me to music; it is a little bit too soft compared to the text, but it appeals to most people and is therefore performed more often". [4] Norman Del Mar wrote that
The tone poems of Richard Strauss are noted as the high point of program music in the latter part of the 19th century, extending its boundaries and taking the concept of realism in music to an unprecedented level. In these works, he widened the expressive range of music while depicting subjects many times thought unsuitable for musical depiction.
64 — 1915: orchestral: An Alpine Symphony, tone poem for orchestra 234: 65 — 1919: opera: Die Frau ohne Schatten, opera in three acts 234a — 146: 1947: orchestral: Symphonische Fantasie aus 'Die Frau ohne Schatten' 235: 68 — 1918: Lieder: Six songs (after poems of Clemens Brentano) for voice and piano, orchestrated 1940
Strauss in 1900. Strauss composed "Freundliche Vision", along with the other four songs of Op. 48, in 1900. This song sets a poem by Otto Julius Bierbaum, while the other four set poems by Karl Henckell. Strauss composed art songs as a transition between working in instrumental music and opera; [7] he wrote his first opera, Feuersnot, the same ...
", Op. 27, No. 1, is the first in a set of four songs composed by Richard Strauss in 1894. It was originally for voice and piano, and not orchestrated by Strauss until 1948, after he had completed one of his Four Last Songs, "Im Abendrot ". [2] The words are from a poem "Ruhe, meine Seele!" (Rest, my soul) written by the poet Karl Henckell.