Spouse of the Prime Minister of Singapore
The Spouse of the Prime Minister of Singapore refers to the spouse of the head of government of Singapore, the Prime Minister.
Since, Singapore became an internally self-governing state within the Commonwealth, the title has been occupied by women, therefore the spouse is also known as the Prime Minister's wife.
To date, three women have held the title of the spouse of the Prime Minister of Singapore.
Ho Ching is the spouse of the incumbent Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong.
Sophia Magdalena of Denmark
Sophia Magdalena of Denmark (3 July 1746 – 21 August 1813) was Queen of Sweden as the spouse of King Gustav III.
Gertrude of Bavaria
Gertrude of Saxony and Bavaria( 1152/55–1197) was Duchess of Swabia as the spouse of Duke Frederick IV, and Queen of Denmark as the spouse of King Canute VI.
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.
List of spouses of Prime Ministers of Thailand
The spouse of the Prime Minister of Thailand is the wife or husband of the Prime Minister of Thailand.
The spouse of the current Prime Minister is Associate Professor Naraporn Chan- o-cha.
Spouse of the President of the People's Republic of China
The Spouse of the President of the People's Republic of China, is the spouse of the President of the People's Republic of China.
To date there have been 7 women who have been married to the Chinese president while in office.
List of spouses of chief executives of Hong Kong
There is no official title for the spouse of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong.
Symphony No. 1 (Strauss)
Richard Strauss composed his Symphony No. 1 in D minor (TrV 94) in 1880 when he was just 16 years old.
It consists of four movements, and lasts about 34 minutes.
Although Strauss did not give a number to the symphony, it is often referred to as his First Symphony.
It was premiered on 30 March 1881 at the Munich Academy of Music under the baton of Hermann Levi.
Spouse of the Prime Minister of Malaysia
The Spouse of the Prime Minister of Malaysia refers to the spouse of the head of government of Malaysia, the Prime Minister.
Since independence in 1957, the title has been occupied by women, therefore the spouse is also known as the Prime Minister's wife.
Some commentators have tried to style prime ministers' wives as" First Lady of Malaysia", similar to the style of First Lady used in republics, but this is not a recognised title.
To date, seven women have held the title of the spouse of the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
Siti Hasmah is the spouse of the incumbent Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad.
Spouse of the Prime Minister of Cambodia
The Spouse of the Prime Minister of Cambodia refers to the wife of the head of government of the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Prime Minister.
Since 1993, 3 women have been the spouse of the Prime Minister of Cambodia.
The title" First Lady" is also commonly used.
The spouse of the current Prime Minister is Dr. Bun Rany.

Question: Who is the spouse of the composer of song Symphony No. 1 (Strauss)?
Answer: Pauline de Ahna