Strauss, Richard

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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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How to use Strauss, Richard in a sentence

As played by Omundson, King Richard is effeminate, sincere, and ten times funnier than everyone else.
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In the 1950s, you had people like Richard Hofstadter and Arthur Schlesinger moving back and forth between the two worlds.
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Steiger was nominated, and Richard Burton, and a lot of people in bigger movies.
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Then, two years later, America elected Richard Nixon as president.
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Richard Chiswell, a noted English printer and an extensive publisher, died.
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Richard Brathwaite, an English poet and miscellaneous writer, died.
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Richard Cumberland died; eminent as a British poet, essayist, novelist and dramatic writer.
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Richard Wilson died; an English landscape painter of great merit.
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Richard Joy (the English Samson), died; a man of wonderful strength.
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