Strongly influencing European musical life from the 1880s through the First World War and remaining highly productive into the 1940s, Richard Strauss enjoyed a
Richard Strauss, The Man and His Works by Henry Theophilus Finck, first published in 1917, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libra
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
Richard Strauss is a composer much loved among audiences throughout the world, both in the opera house and the concert hall. Despite this popularity, Strauss wa
'I know what I want, and I know what I meant when I wrote this. After all I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.' Thes