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People In Music History
Strauss, Richard [Georg] (1864-1949) German composer, also conductor; no
relation to the other Strausses. Born in Munich, later settling in Garmisch
(also in Bavaria) where he died. Became the most celebrated German composer of
his generation. After early leaning toward "traditional" forms, took up and
developed the Symphonic Poem, composing, e.g., Macbeth, Don Juan, Death and
Transfiguration, Til Eulenspiegel, Thus Spake Zarathustra (Ger., Also sprach
Zarathustra), Don Quixote, Ein Heldenleben. Also of the character of symphonic
poems are his Symphonia Domestica and Alpine Symphony (1915), his last work of
this illustrative type. His early operas (e.g., Salome, Elektra, Der
Rosenkavalier) have a grandiloquent, Wagner-influenced style and a tendency to
"shocking" subjects; but from Ariadne auf Naxes (1912), there are signs of the
more intimate manner that characterizes especially certain very late works,
e.g., horn concerto no. 2. symphony for wind (both in neo-Mozartian style).
Wrote also incidental music to Moliere's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme;
Metamorphoses for strings; many songs, several with his own orchestral
accompaniments various further operas, including Arabella, Intermezzo,
Capriccio; ballet The Legend of Joseph.