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Richard Strauss

Also known as Richard Georg Strauss

German composer and orchestra director (1864–1949)

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Richard Georg Strauss (1864–1949) was a German composer, conductor, and librettist. Born in Munich, he worked within the genres of opera, symphony, and classical music. His notable works include *Also sprach Zarathustra*, *Salome*, *Der Rosenkavalier*, and *Ariadne auf Naxos*. Other listed compositions are *Le chevalier a la rose*, *Intermezzo*, *Betrachtungen und Erinnerungen*, *El caballero de la rosa*, and *Die Ruinen von Athen*.

Strauss was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and received several honors, including the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, the Order of the Redeemer, the Adlerschild des Deutschen Reiches, and the Order of the Iron Crown (Austria). He was married to Pauline de Ahna and was the son of Franz Strauss. Strauss died in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 11 June 1864
Died: 8 September 1949
Works: 430

Top works

Le chevalier a la rose
Intermezzo
Betrachtungen und Erinnerungen
El caballero de la rosa
Die Ruinen von Athen

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Film & TV

Sound · Munich, Bavaria, Germany

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 and other orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Also sprach Zarathustra, An Alpine Symphony, and Metamorphosen. Strauss…

Known for

Richard Strauss im Zwielicht2025
Karajan: Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklarung / Metamorphosen2008
Karajan: Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie / Also Sprach Zarathustra2008
Karajan: Richard Strauss: Don Quixote / Ein Heldenleben — Composer2008
The Art of Conducting: Great Conductors of the Past — Self (archive footage)1993
Elektra — Self - Composer1989
Von Reinhardt bis Karajan - 50 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele — Self (archive footage)1970
Omnibus — Self1967
Botschafter der Musik — Self1952

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Germany
Active from: 1864
Active to: 1949

classicalcomposergermangerman composerliedopera

Discography

Dance of the Seven Veils1946
Till Eulenspiegel1946
Don Juan / Till Eulenspiegel1952
Salome1954
Der Rosenkavalier1957
Arabella1958
Also sprach Zarathustra1959
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks / Dance Of The Seven Veils / Tod Und Verklärung1961
Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 & Till Eulenspiegel, Op. 281963
Arabella1964

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 571,409
Total plays: 4,614,850

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 63,432x
The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
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Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 47,675x
ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 47,319x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,680x

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Quotes

“If my works are good and of any importance for the further development of our art, they will maintain their position in spite of all opposition on the part of critics, and in spite of all denigration of my artistic intentions. If they are worthtless, not even the most gratifying box office success or the most enthusiastic acclamation of augurs will keep them alive. Let the pulping press devour them...I shall not shed a tear over their grave.”

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Richard Strauss, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Don Quixote. . Introduzione, theme with variazioni e Finale [Music Noted]:] fantastiche Variationem über ein Thema ritterlichen Charakters = Introon a theme of a noble character = Introfantastiques sur un thème de caractère chaleresque: op. 35

Tod und Verklärung [Música notada] =]Death and transfiguration = Mort et transfiguration : op. 24

Also Sprach Zarathustra [Música notada] :] frei nach Friedrich Nietzsche = Thus spoke Zrathustra : after Friedrich Nietzsche = Ainsi parla Zoroastre : d'après Friedrich Nietzsche : op. 30

Macbeth [Música notada] :]Tondichtung nach Shakespeares Drama = Symphonic poem after Skakespiare's drama = poème symphonique d'après le drama Shakespeare : op. 23

Wasserrose [Música notada]

Symphonia domestica [Música notada]: für grosses Orchestes, op. 53

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Encyclopedic overview

Richard Georg Strauss (/straʊs/; German: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈʃtʁaʊs] ; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer and conductor known for his tone poems and operas. A leading figure of the late Romantic and early Modern era, and a successor to Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt, he combined, along with his friend Gustav Mahler, subtleties of orchestration with an advanced harmonic style.

His compositional output began when he was just six years old and lasted until his death nearly eighty years later. His first tone poem to achieve wide acclaim was Don Juan, and this was followed by other lauded works of this kind, including Death and Transfiguration, Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote, Ein Heldenleben, Symphonia Domestica, and An Alpine Symphony. His first opera to achieve international fame was Salome, which used a libretto by Hedwig Lachmann that was a German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde. This was followed by several critically acclaimed operas with librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Die ägyptische Helena, and Arabella. His last operas, Daphne, Friedenstag, Die Liebe der Danae and Capriccio used libretti written by Joseph Gregor, the Viennese theatre historian. Other well-known works by Strauss include two symphonies, lieder (especially the Four Last Songs), the Violin Concerto in D minor, the Horn Concerto No. 1, Horn Concerto No. 2, his Oboe Concerto and other instrumental works such as Metamorphosen.

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Richard Strauss