A composer's life Marita Berg / rf06/10/2014 Richard Strauss (1864-1949) lived through several musical eras - and shaped them deeply. "Others compose; I make music history," the maestro said at ...

Richard Strauss: a biography Richard Strauss’s father, Franz, was the leading horn player in Munich. Though Wagner entrusted to him the important horn solos in the premieres of Tristan, Meistersinger ...

Donald explains how Strauss's father, Franz, exerted a powerful influence over his education and early career. Conductor Hans von Bülow gave Strauss his first conducting post, and the violinist ...

Franz Strauss is little-known today except as the father of composer Richard Strauss, the German conductor, pianist, and violinist. But this piece does make the elder Strauss stand out. The gentle ...

Since Rosenkavalier (1911), Composer Strauss has been more deserving of criticism. He has orchestrated with his prodigious oldtime skill but many of his ideas have been barren, repetitious.

Composer Richard Strauss took a prominent post in Hitler’s Germany – but we should not let that ruin our enjoyment of his music, writes Clemency Burton-Hill.

Second only to Mozart as Strauss’ most admired composer. Strauss first conducted at the Wagner shrine of Bayreuth in July 1894 – Tannhäuser, with his future wife, Pauline de Ahna, as Elisabeth.