Richard Strauss

By garri johnson

country

• Richard Strauss was born in Germany.

born

• He was born on 6\11\1864.He died 9\8\1949.

Type of music era

• The type of music he played was romantic in the early era of operas etc.

Famous songs

• D minor symphony. Popp, Gruberova,mattilia.

Interesting facts

• Richard Strauss , 1864-1949, German composer. Strauss brought to a culmination the development of the 19th-century symphonic poem, and was a leading composer of romantic opera in the early 20th cent. Son of a celebrated horn player, he had extensive musical instruction and began composing as a child of six. His first major work, the symphony in D minor, was first performed in 1880. Strauss's early works, in classical forms, brought him instant acclaim. He succeeded Hans von Bülow as conductor at Meiningen (1885-86) and later as conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic concerts (1894-95). His friendship with the poet Alexander Ritter influenced him to adopt the romantic aesthetic philosophy and style of Liszt and Wagner . A group of songs, the symphonic fantasy Aus Italien (1886), and the symphonic poems Don Juan (1888) and Death and Transfiguration (1889) were the first.