Strauss, Richard

1. A German composer and conductor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Strauss is best known for the opera Der Rosenkavalier (The Cavalier of the Rose) and for Thus Spake Zarathustra , a piece for orchestra inspired by the book of the same name by Friedrich Nietzsche .

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Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner are outstanding examples of composers of the late romantic period in music. ( See romanticism .)

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Von Hofmannsthal is best remembered now as the librettist of Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier.

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An idol of the hour, in some ways suggesting Richard Strauss, tries in vain to wreck his faith in his career.

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It was the violin sonata of Richard Strauss, and handing the violin part to Rekower he seated himself on the stool.

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The early songs, for instance, might have proceeded from the facile pen of Richard Strauss.

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Richard Strauss, deriving in some sense from Wagner, makes the older man seem a classic and conservative.

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And Richard Strauss, yet a nine days' wonder, is described clearly and accurately, and his true stature indicated.

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