5.16.+Richard+Strauss

**__BIOGRAPHY__**

Richard Georg Strauss born in 11 June in Munich. His father, Franz Strauss is the much respected if musically conservative first horn in the Court Orchestra. He was a German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, particulary of operas, lieder and tone poems. When he has ten years old he enter in the Royal Grammar School,, whthe Ludwigs-Gymnasiumere he enjoys a classical education for the next seven years and has many works performed, including in 1881 a setting of a choral stasimon from Sophocles’ Electra. He received education from his father, He wrote his first music at the age of six. In 1874 Strauss herad In 1874 Strauss heard his first Wagner operas, Lohengrin and Tannhäuser. the influence of Wagner's music on Strauss's style was to be profound, but at first his musically conservative father forbade him to study it: it was not until the age of 16 that he was able to obtain a score of. Tristan und Isolde In 1882 he entered in the Munich Universtity he studing philosophy aesthetics and art history. Richard Strauss married soprano Pauline de Ahna on 10 September 1894.

In the enigma of Strauss conclude twree basic dats: The moral derrumbament oh a nation that would throw of precipice oh history, a small burguess personality, almost nondescrip, overwhelmed by events and wich finally locked in a unprecedented artistic autism, and inendaria and extraordinary sensual music taht has become, along with Mozart, Verdi, Wagner and Puccini, on the basic current opera.

Strauss died in the Bavarian town of Garmisch Partenkirchen at the age of 85 (1949). He never hear the interpretation of these songs and, indeed, could not have guessed that the Eichendorff poem would integrate a cycle along with those of Hermann Hesse. It was Ernst Roth, his London publisher, who felt that the melody was Abendrot Im fitting complement to the poems of Hesse.

** __Strauss and the Nazis__ ** Here is much controversy surrounding Strauss's role in Germany after the Nazi Party came to power. Some say that he was constantly apolitical, and never cooperated with the Nazis completely. Several noted musicians disapproved of his conduct while the Nazis were in power, among them the conductor Arturo Toscanini, who famously said, "To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again." His decision to produce Friedenstag in 1938, a one-act opera set in a besieged fortress during the Thirty years' War - Essentially a hymn to peace and a thinly veiled criticism of the Third Reich – during a time when an entire nation was preparing for war, has been seen as extraordinarily brave When his daughter-in-law Alice was placed under house arrest in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1938, Strauss used his connections in Berlin to secure her safety. In 1942, Strauss moved with his family back to Vienna, where Alice and her children could be protected by Baldur von Schirach, the Gauleiter of Vienna. Unfortunately, even Strauss was unable to protect his Jewish relatives completely; in early 1944, while Strauss was away, Alice and the composer's son were abducted by the Gestapo and imprisoned for two nights. Only Strauss's personal intervention at this point was able to save them and he was able to take the two of them back to Garmisch where they remained under house arrest until the end of the war.

In 1948, Strauss wrote his last work, Four Last Songs for soprano and orchestra, reportedly with Kirsten Flagstad in mind. She certainly gave the first performance and it was recorded, but the quality of the recording is poor.

In this picture we can view a resum of biography of Richart Strauss. The blue letter are the operas that he made, the red and green letter are his the other works.

 __OPERAS__

 * Guntram (1894-1893)
 * Feuersnot (1901-1901)
 * Salome (1903-1905)
 * Elektra (1906-1908)
 * Der Rosenkavalier (1909-1910)
 * Ariadne auf Naxos (1911-1912)
 * Die Frauohne Schatten (1914-1917)
 * Intermezzo (1923)
 * Die ägyptische Helena (1927)
 * Arabella (1918-1932)
 * Die schweigsame Frau (1933-1934)
 * Friedenstag (1935-1936)
 * Daphne (1936-1937)
 * Die Liebe der Danae (1938-1940)
 * Capriccio (1940-1941)


 * Symphony "Alpine"
 * Symphonic Poem "Also sprach Zarathustra"
 * Horn Concertos
 * Oboe Concerto
 * Symphonic Poem "Don Juan"
 * The Four Last Songs (1948)
 * Symphonic Poem "Ein Heldenleben"

__Other Works __
 * Aus Italien, Op. 16 (1886)
 * Don Juan, OP. 20 (1889)
 * Macbeth, Op. 23 (1888/90)
 * Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), Op. 24 (1888–89)
 * Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
 * (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks), Op. 28 (1895)
 * Also sprach Zarathustra Op. 30 (1896)
 * Don Quixote, Op. 35 (1898)
 * Ein Heldenleben Op. 40 (1899)
 * Symphonia Domestica(Domestic Symphony), Op. 53 (1904)
 * Eine Alpensinfonie(An Alpine Symphony), Op. 64 (1915)

Videos media type="youtube" key="HimqZylV-ic" height="344" width="425" __COMMENTED PIECE __ media type="youtube" key="DRbf71sdTrw" height="344" width="425" align="left"This piece, Metamorphosen is a composition for 23 solo strings (ten violins, five violas, five cellos, and three double basses) by Richard Strauss. Written during the closing months of the Second World War, in particular the bombing of the Munich Opera House. I think that this piece reflected how did he feel in the Secon World War and this piece demostrate how he feel and the piece is sad. It Was composed in 1945, when the romanticism was the principal genre. This is his last works, //Metamorphosen//.

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