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Franz Josef Strauss (26 February 1822 – 31 May 1905) was a German musician. He was a composer , a virtuoso horn player and accomplished performer on the guitar , clarinet and viola . He was principal horn player of the Bavarian Court Opera for more than 40 years, a teacher at the Royal School of Music , Munich, and a conductor.
The Strauss family was frequently joined in their home for music making, meals, and other activities by the orphaned composer and music theorist Ludwig Thuille who was viewed as an adopted member of the family. [1] Strauss's father taught his son the music of Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert. [1]
After von Asow's death Franz Trenner (d. 1993) and Alfons Ott (d. 1976) published the third volume, based on von Asow's notes; this catalogue lists 323 titles, including Strauss's literary writings. The numbers for compositions from this catalogue are shown in the column " AV " in the table below.
Strauss completed his musical studies with his composition teacher, Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer, in February 1880 (he was a conductor and had been hired as a private teacher by Richard's father Franz Strauss since 1875). By the age of 18, Strauss had composed nearly 150 works.
Franz Strauss. Fantasy on the Sehnsuchtswalzer of Schubert, Op. 2; Fantasy, Op. 6 for horn and orchestra; Nocturno, Op. 7 for horn and piano; Horn Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 8; Romanze, Op. 12 for horn and piano ("Empfindungen am Meere") Theme and Variations, Op. 13 for horn and piano; Les Adieux, for horn and piano; Johann Strauss. Dolci ...
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 six symphonic poems similar to those of Franz Liszt. [1] Strauss may have already been turning away from the conservative style of music, influenced by the ...
De Ahna was born in Ingolstadt, the daughter of General Adolf de Ahna. [1] Her career was closely tied to Richard Strauss's both before and after their marriage. She was trained at the Munich Musikschule (now the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich) where Franz Strauss, Richard's father, was a professor of the horn. [2]
Strauss, 1898 portrait by Fritz Erler. Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), Op. 40, is a tone poem by Richard Strauss.The work was completed in 1898. It was his eighth work in the genre, and exceeded any of its predecessors in its orchestral demands.