Richard Strauss

Chamber music, Composer

1864 – 1949

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Who was Richard Strauss?

Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems Death and Transfiguration, Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Also sprach Zarathustra, An Alpine Symphony, and other orchestral works, such as Metamorphosen. Strauss was also a prominent conductor throughout Germany and Austria.

Strauss, along with Gustav Mahler, represents the late flowering of German Romanticism after Richard Wagner, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style.

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Born
Jun 11, 1864
Munich
Also known as
  • 리하르트 슈트라우스
  • Strauss, Richard
  • Richard Georg Strauss
Parents
Spouses
Religion
  • Atheism
Ethnicity
  • Bavarians
Nationality
  • Germany
Profession
Education
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Lived in
  • Munich
  • Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Died
Sep 8, 1949
Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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