Conversation so far:
What are tone poems?
which displays a new kind of virtuosity in its bravura orchestral manner.
What was the name of one of the poems?
Don Juan (1888).
What was the name of another?
Death and Transfiguration (1889), Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks (1895), Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1896), Don Quixote (1897), Ein Heldenleben (1898).
Did he have any more?
Symphonia Domestica (1903) and An Alpine Symphony (1911-1915).
What was one of his orchestral works?
Strauss wrote two early symphonies: Symphony No.
1 (1880) and Symphony No.
2 (1884).

Question: Were his works well received?
Self-contained rewrite: Were Richard Strauss's works well received?