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The Life of Richard Strauss

1999-08-19 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 1999-08-19
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Book Synopsis The Life of Richard Strauss by : Bryan Gilliam

Download or read book The Life of Richard Strauss written by Bryan Gilliam. This book was released on 1999-08-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Strauss saw an empire come and go, survived two world wars, witnessed the rise and fall of the Weimar Republic, endured the period of National Socialism, and died the year that Germany was officially divided into two separate states. All the while he enjoyed a successful career as composer, as conductor of international stature, as organizer for the rights of composers, and as colleague of and collaborator with some of the most important composers, writers, and artists of his day. This biography covers Strauss's early musical development, his emergence as a tone poet in the late nineteenth century, his turn to the stage at the beginning of the twentieth century, the successes and failures of the post-World War I era, the turbulent 1930s, and the period of the Second World War and its aftermath.

Richard Strauss and His World

1992-08-30 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 1992-08-30
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Book Synopsis Richard Strauss and His World by : Bryan Randolph Gilliam

Download or read book Richard Strauss and His World written by Bryan Randolph Gilliam. This book was released on 1992-08-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. This volume presents six original essays on Strauss's musical works--including tone poems, lieder, and operas--and brings together letters, memoirs, and criticism from various periods of the composer's life. Many of these materials appear in English for the first time. In the essays Leon Botstein contradicts the notion of the composer's stylistic "about face" after Elektra; Derrick Puffett reinforces the argument for Strauss's artistic consistency by tracing in the tone poems and operas the phenomenon of pitch specificity; James Hepokoski establishes Strauss as an early modernist in an examination of Macbeth; Michael Steinberg probes the composer's political sensibility as expressed in the 1930s through his music and use of such texts as Friedenstag and Daphne; Bryan Gilliam discusses the genesis of both the text and the music in the final scene of Daphne; Timothy Jackson in his thorough source study argues for a new addition to the so-called Four Last Songs. Among the correspondence are previously untranslated letters between Strauss and his post-Hofmannsthal librettist, Joseph Gregor. The memoirs range from early biographical sketches to Rudolf Hartmann's moving account of his last visit with Strauss shortly before the composer's death. Critical reviews include recently translated essays by Theodor Adorno, Guido Adler, Paul Bekker, and Julius Korngold [Publisher description].

Richard Strauss

2011 Composers
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Release : 2011
Genre : Composers
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Book Synopsis Richard Strauss by : Raymond Holden

Download or read book Richard Strauss written by Raymond Holden. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned as the gifted composer of a string of masterworks, Richard Strauss (1864-1949) is less often remembered for his achievement as a major conductor. This book considers Strauss' career as a conductor and places it in relation to his life as a composer.

Richard Strauss

1976 Composers
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Release : 1976
Genre : Composers
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Book Synopsis Richard Strauss by : Michael Kennedy

Download or read book Richard Strauss written by Michael Kennedy. This book was released on 1976. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Richard Strauss

2013-12-19 Music
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Release : 2013-12-19
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Richard Strauss by : Norman Del Mar

Download or read book Richard Strauss written by Norman Del Mar. This book was released on 2013-12-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norman Del Mar (1919-1994) was universally recognised as a leading authority on the music of Richard Strauss, and his masterly three-volume study of his life and works remains a classic. Volume I deals with the years from the composer's birth (1864) to Der Rosenkavalier (1912), discussing the early orchestral and chamber music, the tone poems and the operas Guntram, Feuersnot, Salome and Elektra. 'Deploying a well-nigh encyclopaedic knowledge, Mr Del Mar acquits himself brilliantly of his task of disentangling and reassembling the numerous strands that make up the backcloth of poetry and philosophy which Strauss, while not always understanding every intricacy, yet needed as a constant reference map for his composing. The three volumes of this magnificent book should be studied by all lovers of the late-romantic music, amateurs and professionals alike...a monumental achievement.' Times Literary Supplement 'A brilliant and copiously analytical study ... a constant fascination.' Guardian

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