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| | MSN Encarta - Richard Strauss |
 | | Richard Strauss (1864-1949), German composer and conductor, a leading composer for the modern orchestra and a master of composing for the human voice. | | | Strauss also composed more than 100 songs; some of them, such as “Zueignung” (Dedication, 1882-1883) and “Morgen” (Morning, 1893-1894), are of the finest quality. | | | These include a Sonata for Cello and Piano (1883), Burleske for piano and orchestra (1885), and the symphonic fantasy Aus Italien (From Italy, 1887). |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761566570/Richard_Strauss.html
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| | Richard Strauss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Strauss's solo and chamber works include early compositions for piano solo in a conservative harmonic style, many of which are lost; a rarely-heard string quartet (opus 2); the famous violin sonata in Eb which he wrote in 1887; as well as a handful of late pieces. | | | Indeed, in the Strauss household the music of Richard Wagner was considered inferior. | | | During his boyhood he had the good fortune to be able to attend orchestra rehearsals of the Munich Court Orchestra, and he also received private instruction in music theory and orchestration from an assistant conductor there. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Strauss
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| | OperaWorld.com's Opera Insights: Richard Strauss |
| | Strauss layered brutally difficult vocal music on top of his 100+ piece orchestra for a tone poem qua stage play with calculated decadence of the fff variety. | | | Strauss sweeps willingly between musical worlds, climbing from campy jest and beer-hall melody to high tragedy at the very border of tonality, without warning or justification. | | | His characters are chameleon-like and their voices protean, and his operas leave space for even the most ambitious reinterpretation, with the ability to surprise the most familiar listener. |
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http://www.operaworld.com/special/strauss2.shtml
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| | AZOpera Richard Strauss Biography |
| | Strauss' requirement for voices of Wagnerian strength singing with a violent dissonance drew the wrath of the music community. | | | In the creative tradition of Wagner, Strauss' music subscribed to its own symbolism and attachment to literary roots, as well as to the Wagnerian technique utilizing an orchestra of gargantuan proportions to give full benefit to music of enormous melodic and harmonic complexity, Strauss added the challenge to audiences of a uniquely unsettlingly dissonant quality. | | | And, although evocative of the leitmotiv -- at times suggestive of the sounds of thunder storms, bleating animals, human conflicts - Strauss' work, like much of Wagner's, also stood on its own as absolute music, not necessarily to be viewed as simply symbolic or programmatic. |
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http://www.evermore.com/azo/c_bios/rstrauss.php3
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| | The Richard Strauss Page -- Bibliography and Reviews |
| | The book, also titled Richard Strauss (part of the 'Master Musicians Series'), gives a balanced overview of the life of Strauss as well as an outstanding presentation of the progression of his musical development. | | | With 1999 being the 50th anniversary of the death of Richard Strauss, there is a significant amount of Strauss-related activity in many different segments of the musical world, and publishing is no exception to this trend. | | | Richard Strauss's Elektra (Studies in Musical Genesis and Structure), written by Bryan Gilliam. |
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http://people.unt.edu/~dmeek/rstrauss-bibliography.html
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| | Richard Strauss's Die ägyptische Helena (original version, 1928 |
| | Strauss finally ceased conducting and, in the pregnant silence that followed, pronounced with characteristic irony the final line of Salome: "Kill that woman!" Nevertheless, unlike most of his contemporaries, Strauss saw in the self-discipline of martial fidelity and loyalty not the death of creativity, but its source. | | | In German-speaking culture, Hofmannsthal retains a stature the equivalent of his musical collaborator, Richard Strauss. | | | He abandoned all need to follow fashion, but sought through the operation and musical traditions he so cherished to compel his listeners to confront the possibilities and consequences of heir own autobiographical struggles. |
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http://www.americansymphony.org/dialogues_extensions/97_98season/3rd_concert/leon.cfm
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| | Richard Strauss + Ben Jonson |
| | Although his religious skepticism cannot be heard in his music, his music can still be heard today. | | | Strauss followed that work with what has become known as the theme music for the Stanley Kubrick film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. | | | Also Sprach Zarathustra (1896) was based on the work of the notoriously skeptical Friedrich Nietzsche. |
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http://www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com/rants/0611almanac.htm
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| | Elisabeth Schumann and Richard Strauss |
| | First she performed three songs with Strauss at the piano. | | | Strauss wanted to give them his grand piano as a moving in present, but they would not hear of it. | | | Richard Strauss in 1919; a lithograph by Max Liebermann, an illustratration from Elisabeth Schumann's introduction to 'German Song' |
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http://www.elisabethschumann.org/biography/esandrichardstrauss.htm
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| | Richard Strauss, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 (1896) |
| | With regard to Strauss' tone poem, "freely based on Friedrich Nietzsche," the most sensible course for listeners is likewise to take the piece as music, undistracted by considerations of dubious metaphysics. | | | During the concluding Night_Wanderer's Song twelve somber bell_strokes, progressively diminishing in force like the paroxysms of the "catastrophe" in Berg's Violin Concerto, toll midnight. | | | This is essentially a lyric drama, captivating its audience through vivid gesture and trenchant characterization. |
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http://www.americansymphony.org/dialogues_extensions/99_2000season/2000_03_08/strauss.cfm
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| | Richard Strauss |
| | Richard Strauss was the most clearly programmatic composer of the nineteenth century, and he used the freedoms of musical pictorialism to create sounds that bring us into the twentieth century. | | | Strauss exploits these to create musical representations ranging from bleating sheep to the transfiguration of the human soul. | | | With his principal librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, he created two forward-looking and shocking works: Salome, based on Oscar Wilde's controversial play, and Elektra, Hoffmannsthal's version of the classical Greek tragedy. |
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http://www.wwnorton.com/enjoy/shorter/composers/strauss.htm
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| | Richard Strauss |
| | It is possible that Strauss selected this particular aria, with its piano obbligato, in order to give the evening's piano soloist, Wilhelm Stenhammar, another performance opportunity. | | | Although the symphony was revised twice, ultimately expanding to seven movements by 1880, Strauss performed only the original four movements in Berlin. | | | The programs of Strauss's eleven concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic suggest a desire to assert his own musical tastes without deviating substantially from earlier formulas. |
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http://www.americansymphony.org/dialogues_extensions/94_95season/3rd_concert/strauss.cfm
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| | Richard Strauss: Melodramas |
| | Strauss' musical accompaniment is continuous throughout and proceeds in just the fashion that you would expect for a song of this sort -- except that it accompanies a spoken line rather than a melodic one. | | | One possible explanation of the low regard that music critics have for these pieces is that they tend to think of melodramas primarily as musical works. | | | Enoch Arden, written in 1897, was the result, and it achieved Strauss' goals admirably: he and Possart toured extensively together, performing to large and appreciative audiences. |
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http://www.music.princeton.edu/~jwp/texts/strauss.html
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| | Richard Strauss created an immediate sensation with his opera Salome, based on the play of that name by Oscar Wilde. | | | There is an early violin concerto, but it is rather the Oboe Concerto of 1945, revised in 1948, that has impressed audiences. | | | Art & Music: Klimt - Music of His Time |
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http://naxos.com/composer/btm.asp?fullname=Strauss,+Richard
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| | Richard Strauss -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | One of the most talked-of musicians of the early 1900s was Richard Strauss. | | | German-born American soprano known for her interpretation of lieder and of the music of W.A. Mozart and Richard Strauss. | | | Although he could write beautiful melodies, and often did, in many of his compositions for orchestra he seemed less interested in melody and more interested in injecting unusual realism into his music. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9069931?tocId=9069931
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| | BBC - Classical Review - Richard Strauss: Orchestral Songs, Soile Isokoski |
| | Here Strauss is allowed to speak for himself straight from the pages of the score, and Isokoski's silvery soprano soars effortlessly into the stratosphere, as beautiful a sound as anyone could wish for, yet without the layers of interpretative varnish or rich vibrato that actually distance us from the real emotional content of the songs. | | | A very big congratulations to Richard Strauss and his orchestral songs. | | | The voice is not beautiful enough for Strauss, and I suspect that these Four Last Songs would not work in live concert - the voice is too light. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/classical/reviews/strauss_isokoski.shtml
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| | Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Richard Strauss |
| | In general, Strauss survives as a song-writer by individual songs, rather than by cycles, unlike someone like, say, Mahler. | | | His father, a musical conservative, probably had much to do with this. | | | However, his Salome (1905), based on the play by Oscar Wilde, caused a sensation, and not only for its subject. |
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http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/straussr.html
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| | Richard Strauss News |
| | Giving patrons a big serve at the end of the year, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra concluded its final Master series with the large-scale tone poem by Richard Strauss, Ein Heldenleben, in which the composer... | | | Special to The Globe and Mail Toronto Symphony Orchestra Stephen Hough, piano Thomas Dausgaard, conductor At Roy Thomson Hall In Toronto on Wednesday In spite of the engaging presence and evident skills of the... | | | Tucson Symphony Orchestra conductor George Hanson has been looking for an excuse for 10 years to perform Richard Strauss' little-known tone poem, "Macbeth." He'll get the chance when the orchestra he has led... |
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http://www.topix.net/who/richard-strauss
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| | Biography |
| | His father, Franz Strauss, is the much respected if musically conservative first horn in the Court Orchestra | | | Pauline sings Elisabeth in several Bayreuth performances of Tannhäuser conducted by Strauss. | | | Completion of villa at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavarian alps, financed partly by royalty income from Salome |
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http://www.richard-strauss.com/biography.html
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| | The Richard Strauss Page |
| | Here's an interesting/humorous page: 'The Origin of Music', Told Using the Music of Richard Strauss. | | | Lists all of the films that have used Strauss' music (and allows you to submit films not listed). | | | From Jared Weinberger's Web site: his Richard Strauss Operas on CD Discography. |
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http://people.unt.edu/~dmeek/rstrauss.html
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| | OperaWorld.com's Opera Insights: Richard Strauss |
| | When Toscanini withdrew from performances at Bayreuth, Strauss, not wanting such a great musical event to be jeopardized, took his place. | | | Soon the listening orchestra members heard shrieks of rage and loud insults, then silence. | | | Toscanini said, "To Strauss the musician I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it on again." Richard Strauss died in 1949, sadly believing that few would hear his music in the future. |
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http://www.operaworld.com/special/strauss.shtml
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| | Richard Strauss - an overview of the classical composer |
| | Firstly he is famous for writing "Programmatic" music, that is music that tells a story rather than being abstract in nature. | | | Salome - the scandalous opera based on an Oscar Wilde play; one staging of this had sets designed by the artist Salvador Dali | | | Korngold and others who followed him defined a language for film music that has had a lasting influence on film music ever since, and John Williams in particular based his style on music from this late romantic era. |
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http://www.mfiles.co.uk/composers/Richard-Strauss.htm
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| | Strauss, Richard on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Son of a celebrated horn player, he had extensive musical instruction and began composing as a child of six. | | | These works—including Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (1895); Thus Spake Zarathustra (1895), after Nietszche; Don Quixote (1898), a tone poem in the form of variations with a cello solo; and A Hero's Life (1898)—were violently both lauded and damned as the very essence of musical modernism. | | | Among Strauss's last major works are the sorrowful Metamorphosen (1946), for string instruments, and two pieces for voice and orchestra, 3 Gesänge and Im Abendrot (both 1948), considered the final musical expression of dying German romanticism. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/s/straussr1.asp
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| | Sheet Music Plus - Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf, Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Robert Schumann: 50 Selected Songs - ... |
| | For all instruments including guitar, violin and fiddle. | | | Sheet Music Plus - Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf, Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Robert Schumann: 50 Selected Songs - Low Voice | | | Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf, Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Robert Schumann: 50 Selected Songs - Low Voice |
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| | NPR : A Strauss Sextet from the Munich Symphony |
| | NPR : A Strauss Sextet from the Munich Symphony | | | The Best CDs You Didn't Hear This Year | | | Performance Today, November 3, 2005 · In the opera Capriccio by Richard Strauss, two men compete for the love of a countess. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4988206
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| | Richard Strauss - Classical music composer |
| | Find more recordings for Richard Strauss at Amazon.com | | | [I am still looking for information about the music of Richard Strauss, that I can publish here. | | | 10 May 1894: Premiere of Guntram, in Weimar, Germany, with Strauss conducting. |
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http://www.classical-composers.org/cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=straussr
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| | Amazon.com: Richard Strauss: Music |
| | Both performances show this estimable maestro at his very best; indeed, this 1958 Till is surely one of the most endearingly warmhearted ever committed to disc (wonderfully nimble horn playing at the start), while Don Juan positively surges with thrusting ardor. | | | Gundula Janowitz sings the "Four Last Songs" with style and conviction, rounding out an excellent program of classics from the past 50 years. | | | This DG twofer of Strauss "Panorama" includes important performances batched together at a good price. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004W3J1?v=glance
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| | CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Richard Strauss |
| | Find the music of Richard Strauss in the Archives. | | | and/or orch.): Strauss wrote over 200 songs, publishing them in groups. | | | Strauss, like his friend and contemporary Mahler, had immense dual reputation as composer and cond. |
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http://www.classicalarchives.com/bios/codm/strauss.html
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| | Custom Writing on Richard Strauss's "Don Juan" |
| | Programmatic music is an important composition type that allows a story to be unfolded before the listener. | | | A composer who can tell a story through these techniques like Strauss is a genius of two arts, musical composition and storytelling. | | | …Strauss composed several programmatic pieces with no formal program ever written for them. |
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http://www.vipessays.com/termpaper/Richard_Strausss_Don_Juan-173673.html
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| | Richard Strauss |
| | In addition to the operas listed above, Strauss composed several other vocal dramatic works and incidental music, and prepared new versions of others, as follows: | | | Del Mar, Norman: Richard Strauss: A Critical Commentary on his Life and Works Barrie & Rockliff, 1962. |
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| | Richard Strauss: Operas on CD |
| | Richard Strauss: Operas on CD This web page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them. | | | Please click here for the version without frames |
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| | Custom Writing on richard strauss |
| | Strauss's musical career began at the age of 4 when he learned how to play the piano. | | | Richard Strauss: A Critical Commentary on his Life and Works. | | | Richard Strauss Composer Profile Pual Maguire December 4, 1999 Work Cited 1. |
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| | Richard E. Strauss, Texas Tech University |
| | Bookstein, F.L., B. Chernoff, R.L. Elder, J.M. Humphries, G.R. Smith, and R.E. Strauss. | | | Strauss, R.E. Cluster analysis and the identification of aggregations. | | | Strauss, R.E. The study of allometry since Huxley. |
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| | Music Critics: Pooping on the Shoulders of Giants French Horn News and Resources |
| | That he chose to become a music critic is clearly supposed to be a gift to the rest of us who would otherwise not be able to identify for ourselves which works of Strauss belong in the "bottom drawer". | | | Better yet, what kind of music critic dare call any work of a composer like Richard Strauss "outright junk"? | | | New York Times critic Allan Kozinn comes off very much as the type of critic who clearly had his choice of conducting a major symphony, pitching for the Mets, or running for President of the United States. |
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http://www.hornroller.com/nytimes_music_critic_richard_strauss
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| | Dresden: Richard Strauss Festival -- Feb. 26 - March 6 |
| | showcasing her peerless interpretation of Strauss’ soaring melodic style. | | | - Percy Grainger, introduction to Henry Finck’s Richard Strauss: The Man and his Works. | | | Every four or five years, the now perfectly restored SemperOper mounts a major festival of Strauss works, much to the delight of Great Performance Tours and our many Strauss aficionados. |
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http://www.greatperformancetours.com/winter2004/pages/winter_dresden.htm
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| | Harwood, Elizabeth -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | Harwood brought warmth and charm to a variety of coloratura and lyric soprano roles, most notably in operas by Mozart, and to songs by Richard Strauss. | | | Elizabeth Jean Harwood was born on May 27, 1938, in Barton Seagrave, Northamptonshire, England. | | | Since its settlement in 1664, Elizabeth has grown because of its nearness to New York City and Newark Bay. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9311617
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| | Richard Strauss: Salome - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter |
| | Starring Bryn Terfel (a Grammy Award winner) and Catherine Malfitano, this production of Richard Strauss' SALOME is an eerie, dark adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play. | | | Richard Strauss: Salome - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter | | | Your use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of the Smarter.com Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions |
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http://www.smarter.com/movies-4/product/richard_strauss:_salome-195429
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| | Richard Strauss, Composer |
| | As Strauss entered his mid-20's he began exploring a new type of composition called a "tone poem"- a piece of music that is meant to tell a specific story with instrumental sections of the orchestra representing certain characters. | | | Richard was composing at the age of six, and his first symphony composition was performed when he was only 17! | | | In his Ein Heldenleben, Strauss patterned the life of the "hero" in the story after his own life, and the life of the "bad guys" as those of music critics. |
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http://www.dsokids.com/2001/dso.asp?PageID=495
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| | Richard Strauss |
| | Of his remaining operas, Capriccio (1942), a 'conversation-piece' in a single act set in the 18th century and dealing with the amorous and artistic rivalries of a poet and a musician, is the most successful, with its witty, graceful, serene score. | | | For a time he was head of the State Music Bureau and he once obligingly conducted at Bayreuth when Toscanini had withdrawn. | | | He had been influenced by Lisztian and Wagnerian thinking; one result was Aus ltalien, which caused controversy on its premiere in 1887. |
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http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/strauss_r.html
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| | Guardian Unlimited Arts Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs |
| | But it is now accepted that Strauss, envisaging a performance in his lifetime, wrote the songs specifically for the great Wagnerian soprano Kirsten Flagstad. | | | Until recently, they were seen as constituting the composer's own requiem - a self-conscious farewell to existence, given loving expression by an idealised soprano voice and intended for performance after his death. | | | Flagstad gave the world premiere, with Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting, in London in 1950. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/keynotes/story/0,11111,777815,00.html
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| | Gilliam, B., ed.: Richard Strauss and His World. |
| | "This book of essays, letters, memoirs, and criticism is a most cordial study of Strauss and his music.... | | | Among the correspondence are previously untranslated letters between Strauss and his post-Hofmannsthal librettist, Joseph Gregor. | | | Strongly influencing European musical life from the 1880s through the First World War and remaining highly productive into the 1940s, Richard Strauss enjoyed a remarkable career in a constantly changing artistic and political climate. |
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| | IMDb Name Search |
| | Richard Strauss (I) (Composer, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)) | | | Richard Travis (I) (Actor, The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)) | | | A search for "Richard Strauss" found the following results: |
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| | Richard Strauss and Salome |
| | It is fitting that Strauss was the man who transformed Wilde's Salome -- the text of which features the attempted seduction of John the Baptist (Iokanaan) followed by Salome's unprecedented passionate post-mortem kiss for the prophet -- into opera; both Wilde and Strauss were criticized widely for unconventionality in their works. | | | n addition to such unconventional and popular works as Elektra (1909), Richard Strauss (German, 1864-1849) composed the opera for the German translation of Oscar Wilde's adaptation of | | | Are Salome and the other plays, then, more like instinctive limericks or are they, rather, considered attempts to apply the Aesthete's philosophy (as defined by Pater) to art? |
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| | Richard Strauss Society |
| | The Richard Strauss Society is a Registered Charity, established for over 12 years. | | | To advance education in and appreciation of the life and works of Richard Strauss. |
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| | Essay on Do the texts in Richard Strauss' Don Juan and Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion present a straightforward contrast ... |
| | The multi-dimensional effect of each media brings across characters in lively exchange to provide the audience with the pleasure of audio and/or visual impact of the story and message of the authors behind them. | | | Both Richard Strauss and Bernard Shaw adapt from popular myth and legend in their work Don Juan (1888-1889) and Pygmalion (1912). | | | Essay on Do the texts in Richard Strauss' Don Juan and Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion present a straightforward contrast between male figures of authority and passive women? |
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http://www.dedicatedwriters.com/paper/Do_the_texts_in_Richard_Straus-136804.html
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| | Richard Strauss (I) |
| | Find where Richard Strauss is credited alongside another name | | | Opus 20 Modern Masterworks: Richard Strauss (1992) (TV) (from "Metamorphosen" Studie für 23 Solostreicher) (from "Vier letzte Lieder&;) | | | You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers. |
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006309
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| | index |
| | Are you a member of the Richard Strauss Gesellschaft? | | | Please drop us a line, we need to hear from you, any suggestions welcome! |
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| | Richard Strauss |
| | A scene from the most charming and the most "Viennese" of Richard Strauss's operas the "Rosenkavalier" | | | A portrait of the conductor-composer Richard Strauss in mature years. |
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| | Links on Richard Strauss |
| | The Works of Richard Strauss by Jared Weinberger | | | "This site will initially be a place for the collection of "serious" data about Richard Strauss." | | | If you know any other R.Strauss SITES, please let us know. |
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