Richard Strauss Was A German Composer And Conductor, Well

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Term Paper Title	Richard Strauss Was A German Composer And Conductor, Well
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     Richard Strauss was a German composer and conductor, well
known at Munich. He was born on June 11, 1864 in Munich, Germany.
He died September 8, 1949 at Garmisch-Patenkirchen. He was
eighty-five years old when he died. Richard Strauss was married
and has one son. He married in 1894.
     Strauss’s first symphony was when he was fourteen years old.
His father was Franz Strauss he was also well known in Munich for
his horn playing. His father supervised Richard’s education. At
four years old he was taking piano lessons from A. Tombo, he was
a harpist of a court orchestra. When he was eight years old he
began to study the violin with Benno Walter. His first year of
writing was when he was six years old. He wrote piano pieces,
songs and overtures.
     Strauss’s first opera was when he was twelve years old. It
was published in 1880. Shortly after he graduated from studding
gymnasium from an academic course. Richard Strauss most famous
tone poem: tells a specific story, his tone poem was Thus Spoke
Zarathustra, This was better known as the begging of the movie
2001: A Space Odyssey. He also did Don Giovanni in 1894. Strauss
is also known as or called the successor of Wagner, but his music
can stand on it’s own.
     In 1933 he became the president of Musikkammer of Hitler’s
Third Reich. He left the post in 1935 and after the war he left
his country for Switzerland. Winter of 1883-1884 Richard Strauss
was in Berlin, and this proved a turning point in his career,
some of his work attracted the attention of Hans von Bulow. Bulow
also helped him to start his career as a conductor. In October
1885 Bulow made a appointment for Strauss as a Assistant Music
Director at Meiningen. At this same time he was playing solo and
concetos and conducted his own Symphony in F minor. This same
period comes the real beginning of Richard Strauss’ career as a
composer. Strauss was appointed successor to Bulow at Meiningen
in 1885 and spent a good deal of spring of 1886 in Italy. Strauss
was appointed subconductor at the Munich Opera, he held the
position till July 1889, then the following August he became the
assistant to Lassen at Weimar.
     The chief events of Strauss’s stay a Weimar, which extend to
June 1894, there was a sever illness in 1892, which it was now
necessary to go to Egypt and Sicily in 1892 and the composition
during this time of the opera Guntram first performed at Weimar
in 1894.
     The first performance of ‘Elektra’ set to the first opera
written for St...

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