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Richard Georg Strauss (/ s t r aʊ s /; 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
The following year, Strauss became assistant conductor of the Meiningen orchestra, attending all of Bulow's rehearsals with pencil and paper in hand. [ 2 ] Bülow exposed Strauss to the "music of the future" through his acquaintance with Alexander Ritter , a composer and violinist who had married Richard Wagner 's niece and himself had written ...
The German composer Richard Strauss (1864–1949) was prolific and long-lived, writing 16 operas from 1892 up until his death in 1949. Strauss "emerged soon after the deaths of Wagner and Brahms as the most important living German composer", [1] and was crucial in inaugurating the musical style of Modernism.
Conductor Richard Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra , Op. 30 ( German: [ˈalzo ʃpʁaːx t͡saʁaˈtʊstʁa] ⓘ , Thus Spoke Zarathustra or Thus Spake Zarathustra ) [ 1 ] is a tone poem by German composer Richard Strauss , composed in 1896 and inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche 's 1883–1885 philosophical work of the same name . [ 2 ]
Strauss (1898) by Fritz Erler. Don Quixote, Op. 35 is a tone poem by Richard Strauss for cello, viola, and orchestra.Subtitled Phantastische Variationen über ein Thema ritterlichen Charakters (Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character), the work is based on the novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes.
Richard Strauss in 1888. Death and Transfiguration (German: Tod und Verklärung), Op. 24, is a tone poem for orchestra by Richard Strauss. Strauss began composition in the late summer of 1888 and completed the work on 18 November 1889. The work is dedicated to the composer's friend Friedrich Rosch. The music depicts the death of an artist.
Clemens Heinrich Krauss (31 March 1893 – 16 May 1954) was an Austrian conductor and opera impresario, particularly associated with the music of Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss and Richard Wagner. He founded the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic and conducted it until 1954.