The Life of Richard Strauss
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- Author: Bryan Gilliam, Duke University, North Carolina
- Date Published: August 1999
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521570190
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Richard Strauss' successful conducting and composing career spanned one of the most fascinating stretches of modern German history, from oil lamps to atomic energy, from a young empire to a divided Germany. This biography covers Strauss' early musical development, his emergence as a tone poet in the late nineteenth century, his turn to the stage at the beginning of the twentieth century, the successes and misfires of the post-World War I era, the turbulent 1930s, and the period of the Second World War and its aftermath.
Read more- 1999 celebrates 50 years since Strauss's death
- Contains previously unpublished, information
- Provides a fresh, clear, balanced view of Strauss's relationship with the Third Reich
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"Written in a lively style...this volume offers undergraduate and general readers a look at a segment of German history from the perspective of one of its greatest composers." Choice
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- Date Published: August 1999
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521570190
- length: 212 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.42kg
- contains: 18 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Musical development and early career
2. 'Onward and away to ever-new victories': Strauss's emergence as a tone poet
3. The rise of an opera composer
4. Between two empires: Strauss in the 1920s
5. After Hofmannsthal: personal and political crises
6. 'Now the day has made me tired': the War and its aftermath.
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