num_pages: 212
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Life of Richard Strauss
titlecomplete: The Life of Richard Strauss (Musical Lives)
characters: Richard Strauss
genres: Music, Biography
ratings_count: 15
series: Musical Lives
publisher: Cambridge University Press