Richard Strauss
Subtitle: New Perspectives on the Composer and His Work (Sources of Music and Their Interpretation)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: November 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780822312079
Subjects: Music/Songbooks; Music Of The 20th Century; Music; Strauss, Richard,; Individual Composer & Musician; 20th century music; Composers & musicians; Germany; Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900); Strauss, Richard; History & Criticism - By Composer; Instruction & Study - Theory; 1864-1949; Criticism and interpretation
First sentence: The signal years in Richard Strauss's early career is usually taken to be 1885, when the impressionable twenty-one-year-old came under the influence of that enigmatic Zukunftsmusiker, Alexander Ritter, and when Strauss began his conversion to the ideals of Zukunftsmusik.