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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.
Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), Op. 24 (1889) Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche ( Till Eulenspeigel's Merry Pranks ), Op. 28 (1895) Also sprach Zarathustra ( Thus Spoke Zarathustra ), Op. 30 (1896)
Tod und Verklärung, (Death and Transfiguration), tone poem for orchestra 159 — 88: 1889: choral: Utan svafvel och fosfor (Swedish matchbox text), for unaccompanied male choir 160: 21 — 1889: Lieder: Schlichte Weisen, five songs for voice and piano
The title Four Last Songs was provided posthumously by Strauss's friend Ernst Roth, who published the four songs as a single unit in 1950 after Strauss's death. Strauss died in September 1949. The premiere was given at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 22 May 1950 by soprano Kirsten Flagstad and the Philharmonia Orchestra , conducted by ...
Bryan Gilliam writes in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians that, "New path or not, Macbeth failed to find a firm place in the concert repertory, because it lacked the thematic cogency and convincing pacing of musical events so evident in the two antecedent works [Don Juan and Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration)].
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Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman without a Shadow), Op. 65, is an opera in three acts by Richard Strauss with a libretto by his long-time collaborator, the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
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