CLEVELAND, Ohio — Richard Strauss must have suspected that he would always be mistaken for another composer. How else do you explain “Also Sprach Zarathustra” — the piece that contains his ...

Richard Strauss’s 1898 tone poem "Ein Heldenleben," or “A Hero’s Life,” is a great example of what a pity it is that Strauss is so seldom performed by American orchestras, and it made for ...

Also Sprach Zarathustra is one of the most famous pieces of classical music repeatedly used in film, with many phenomenal movie scenes getting amazing use out of the piece.Also Sprach Zarathustra ...

Part fairy tale, part psychodrama, Richard Strauss’s “Die Frau Ohne Schatten” (The Woman Without a Shadow) calls for three big-voiced sopranos who can do justice to a long and difficult score.

Richard Strauss: Perfecting the Swan ... As the word "last" implies, the music was written very late in Strauss' life, and apart from one short piece, these were indeed his swan songs.

Richard Strauss left no instructions that his four last songs—written for soprano and ... The most famous composer of his day—he made the cover of Time magazine in 1927 and 1938—Strauss ...

Frances Fyfield is joined by pioneering Australian conductor Simone Young to explore the exquisite and luxurious score of Richard Strauss's comic opera Der Rosenkavalier. Show more When Der ...