The Life of Richard Strauss / Edition 1

by Bryan Gilliam

Overview

Richard Strauss' successful conducting and composing career spanned one of the most fascinating stretches of modern German history, from oil lamps to atomic energy, from a young empire to a divided Germany. This biography covers Strauss' 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 misfires of the post-World War I era, the turbulent 1930s, and the period of the Second World War and its aftermath.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521578950
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/19/1999
Series:	Musical Lives
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.55(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Musical development and early career; 2. 'Onward and away to ever-new victories': Strauss's emergence as a tone poet; 3. The rise of an opera composer; 4. Between two empires: Strauss in the 1920s; 5. After Hofmannsthal: personal and political crises; 6. 'Now the day has made me tired': the War and its aftermath.

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