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chamber music: Festmarsch in D major for piano quartet 137: 13 — 1885: chamber music: Piano Quartet in C minor: 139 — 179: 1885: piano: Cadenza in C minor for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24, K. 491 141: 10 — 1885: Lieder: Acht Gedichte aus „Letzte Blätter“ (Eight Poems from "Last Leaves," by Hermann von Gilm), for voice and piano
A child prodigy in composition, Strauss began his musical studies at the age of four, studying piano with August Tombo who was the harpist in the Munich Court Orchestra. [1] Soon after, he began attending the rehearsals of the orchestra, and began getting lessons in music theory and orchestration from the ensemble's assistant conductor.
Strauss in 1886. The Piano Quartet in C minor was written in the fall and winter of 1884–85, bearing an autograph date of 1 January 1885. This early chamber music work, written when Strauss was 20 years old, shows considerable influence from Johannes Brahms, especially his Piano Quartet in G minor (1856–1861) and Piano Quartet in C minor (1875). [1]
In 1889, Strauss became acquainted with Eugen d'Albert, who liked the work, although he suggested some cuts and changes to the piano part. [3] Strauss rededicated the revised work to d'Albert, who premiered it under its new title Burleske, at a convention of the General German Music Association [2] at Eisenach on 21 June 1890, in the same concert as the premiere of Strauss's Death and ...
The Piano Sonata in B minor, Op.5, was written by Richard Strauss in 1880–81. [1] The Sonata is in the Romantic style of his teenage years. The first recording of the piece was the last recording made by the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould .
Schmutzer's Engraved portrait of Strauss, 1922. The orchestral Dance Suite from Keyboard Pieces by François Couperin (Tanzsuite aus Klavierstücken von François Couperin), TrV 245 was composed by Richard Strauss in 1923 and consists of eight movements, each one based on a selection of pieces from François Couperin's Pièces de Clavecin written for the solo harpsichord over the period 1713 ...
Spoken voice and piano Enoch Arden , Op. 38, TrV. 181, is a melodrama for narrator and piano, written in 1897 by Richard Strauss setting a German translation of the 1864 poem of the same name by Alfred, Lord Tennyson .
Richard Strauss in 1888. 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 ...