Etan Boritzer
Etan Boritzer( born 1950) is an American writer of children ’s literature who is best known for his book" What is God?" first published in 1989.
His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
The other current books in the" What is?" series include
What is Love?,
What is Death?,
What is Beautiful?,
What is Funny?,
What is Right?,
What is Peace?,
What is Money?,
What is Dreaming?,
What is a Friend?,
What is True?,
What is a Family?,
What is a Feeling?"
The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age of 13 when he wrote an essay in his English class at Wade Junior High School in the Bronx, New York on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
His essay was included in a special anthology by New York City public school children compiled and published by the New York City Department of Education.
Boritzer now lives in Venice, California and maintains his publishing office there also.
He has helped numerous other authors to get published through" How to Get Your Book Published!" programs.
Boritzer is also a yoga teacher who teaches regular classes locally and guest- teaches nationally.
He is also recognized nationally as an erudite speaker on" The Teachings of the Buddha."
Walter Robinson (composer)
Walter Robinson is an African American composer of the late 20th century.
He is most notable for his 1977 song" Harriet Tubman", which has been recorded by folk musicians such as Holly Near, John McCutcheon, and others.
He is also the composer of several operas.
Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.
Terence Robinson
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Pamela Jain
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Date of Birth:16th March.
Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
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The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997.
Les Richards
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Brian Saunders (weightlifter)
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Richard Strauss
Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist.
Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt.
Along with Gustav Mahler, he represents the late flowering of German Romanticism after Wagner, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style.
Strauss's compositional output began in 1870 when he was just six years old and lasted until his death nearly eighty years later.
While his output of works encompasses nearly every type of classical compositional form, Strauss achieved his greatest success with tone poems and operas.
His first tone poem to achieve wide acclaim was "Don Juan" (1889), and this was followed by other lauded works of this kind, including "Death and Transfiguration" (1890), "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" (1895), "Also sprach Zarathustra" (1896), "Don Quixote" (1897), "Ein Heldenleben" (1898), "Symphonia Domestica" (1905), and "An Alpine Symphony" (1915).
His first opera to achieve international fame was "Salome" (1905) which used a libretto by Hedwig Lachmann
that was a German translation of the French play "Salomé" by Oscar Wilde.
This was followed by several critically acclaimed operas with librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal: "Elektra" (1909), "Der Rosenkavalier" (1911), "Ariadne auf Naxos" (1912, rev. 1916), "Die Frau ohne Schatten" (1919), "Die ägyptische Helena" (1928), and "Arabella" (1933).
His last operas, "Daphne" (1938),
"Friedenstag" (1938), "Die Liebe der Danae" (1940) and "Capriccio" (1942) used libretti written by Joseph Gregor, the Viennese theatre historian.
Other well-known works by Strauss include two symphonies, lieder (especially his "Four Last Songs" from 1948), the Violin Concerto in D minor (1882), the Horn Concerto No. 1
(1883), Horn Concerto No. 2 (1943), his Oboe Concerto and other instrumental works such as "Metamorphosen" (1945).
Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying quasi-celebrity status as his compositions became standards of orchestral and operatic repertoire.
He was chiefly admired for his interpretations of the works of Liszt, Mozart, and Wagner in addition to his own works.
A conducting disciple of Hans von Bülow
, Strauss began his conducting career as Bülow's assistant with the Meiningen Court Orchestra in 1883.
After Bülow resigned in 1885, Strauss served as that orchestra's primary conductor for five months before being appointed to the conducting staff of the Bavarian State Opera where he worked as third conductor from 1886–1889.
He then served as principal conductor of the Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar from 1889–1894.
In 1894 he made his conducting debut at the Bayreuth Festival, conducting Wagner's "Tannhäuser" with his wife, soprano Pauline de Ahna, singing Elisabeth.
He then returned to the Bavarian State Opera, this time as principal conductor, from 1894–1898, after which he was principal conductor of the Berlin State Opera from 1898–1913.
From 1919–1924 he was principal conductor of the Vienna State Opera, and in 1920 he co-founded the Salzburg Festival.
In addition to these posts, Strauss was a frequent guest conductor in opera houses and with orchestras internationally.
In 1933 Strauss was appointed to two important positions in the musical life of Nazi Germany: head of the Reichsmusikkammer and principal conductor of the Bayreuth Festival.
The latter role he accepted after conductor Arturo Toscanini had resigned from the position in protest of the Nazi party.
These positions have led some to criticize Strauss for his seeming collaboration with the Nazis.
However, Strauss's daughter-in-law, Alice Grab Strauss [née von Hermannswörth], was Jewish and much of his apparent acquiescence to the Nazi Party was done in order to save her life, and the lives of her children (his grandchildren).
He was also apolitical, and took the Reichsmusikkammer post in order to advance copyright protections for composers, attempting as well to preserve performances of works by banned composers such as Debussy, Mahler, and Mendelssohn.
Further, Strauss insisted on using a Jewish librettist, Stefan Zweig, for his opera "Die schweigsame Frau" (1935) which ultimately led to his firing from the Reichsmusikkammer and Bayreuth.
His opera "Friedenstag", which premiered just before the outbreak of World War II, was a thinly veiled criticism of the Nazi party that attempted to persuade Germans to abandon violence for peace.
Thanks to his influence, his daughter-in-law was placed under protected house arrest during the war, but despite extensive efforts he was unable to save dozens of his in-laws from being killed in Nazi concentration camps.
In 1948, a year before his death, he was cleared of any wrong doing by a denazification tribunal in Munich.
Ständchen (Strauss)
"StändchenSerenade") is an art song composed by Richard Strauss in 1886, setting a poem of the same title by the German poet Adolf Friedrich von Schack.
It is the second song in his collection "Six songs for high voice and piano", Op. 17, TrV 149, which were all settings of Schack poems.
The song is written for voice and piano.

Question: When was the composer of song Ständchen (Strauss) born?
Answer: 11 June 1864