Richard Strauss

'Oboe Concerto 1945, inspired by an American soldier, (oboist from Chicago)' - was what Richard Strauss noted down. And the oboist and soldier with the American occupation John de Lancie had indeed as...

Gesang und Orchester / Streicher / Oboe und Orchester

Richard Strauss composed his Horn Concerto No. 1, Op. 11, between 1882 and 1883. The work, which he wrote at the age of only eighteen and dedicated to his father, Franz Strauss—one of the most promine...

Richard Strauss composed his Horn Concerto No. 1, Op. 11, between 1882 and 1883. The work, which he wrote at the age of only eighteen and dedicated to his father, Franz Strauss—one of the most promine...

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) composed his Symphonia Domestica, Op. 53 (TrV 209) in 1902-1903, creating one of his most expansive and personal tone poems, a richly orchestrated portrait of a day in the...

Shortly after the Second World War, Richard Strauss, then 80 years old, had remained safe in his villa in Garmisch, though cultural life in Europe had come to a complete standstill. The American occup...

Richard Strauss composed his second horn concerto about 60 years after his first horn concerto, having recently considered that his actual creativity had come to an end with his opera Capriccio. The l...

Richard Strauss's last completed tone poem is regarded as the pinnacle of his art of orchestration: "Now I've finally learned to orchestrate," he himself is once supposed to have said about it after t...

Strauss had originally intended that Don Quixote always be performed, if possible, together with Heldenleben, “since Don Q. in particular is only fully comprehensible alongside Heldenleben.” To date,...

Richard Strauss war die französische Fassung seiner Salome besonders wichtig. Für den kongenialen Text von Romain Rolland komponierte er umfänglich die Gesangslinien um. Die neue Fassung gilt als Unik...

When the 24-year-old Richard Strauss, assistant conductor in Munich, began the composition of his third tone poem in the summer of 1888, he saw himself close to the aspiration prescribed by his mentor...

Composed at the end of a longer series of works between summer and autumn 1887, the violin sonata numbers among Strauss' most popular chamber music compositions to this day. In the outer movements, it...