The Life of Richard Strauss

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:	9780521570190
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/19/1999
Series:	Musical Lives
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.63(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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"Written in a lively style...this volume offers undergraduate and general readers a look at a segment of German history from the perspective of one of its greatest composers." Choice

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