Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, particularly of operas, Lieder and tone poems. Strauss was also a prominent conductor.
To Richard Strauss went the honour of being the composer of the music on the first compact disc ever commercially released: Herbert von Karajan's 1980 recording of the Alpine Symphony, released by Deutsche Grammophon in 1983.
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Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, particularly of operas, Lieder and tone poems. Strauss was also a prominent conductor.
To Richard Strauss went the honour of being the composer of the music on the first compact disc ever commercially released: Herbert von Karajan's 1980 recording of the Alpine Symphony, released by Deutsche Grammophon in 1983.
Strauss was born on 11 June 1864, in Munich, the son of Franz Strauss, who was the principal horn player at the Court Opera in Munich. He received a thorough, but conservative, musical education from his father in his youth, writing his first music at the age of six. He continued to write music almost until his death.
During his boyhood he had the good fortune to be able to attend orchestra rehearsals of the Munich Court Orchestra, and he also received private instruction in music theory and orchestration from an assistant conductor there. In 1874 Strauss...
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