Richard’s formal academic schooling ran parallel ... even psychopathically mean, Strauss was anything but the munificent Great Composer. His wife, who ruled him with a fist of iron, held the purse ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Richard Strauss must have suspected that he would always be mistaken for another composer. How else do you explain “Also Sprach Zarathustra” — the piece that contains his ...

Johann Strauss II (1825–1899) is known as the 'Waltz King'. He was the greatest of all Viennese dance music composers. Life and Music The young Strauss had started composing and directing his own ...

Specially recorded by the BBC Singers (the BBC's own full-time professional choir, and one of the world's great vocal ensembles ... of some of the modern-day composers. This classic of the ...

Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes When the eighth symphony by the great Beethoven isn’t the ... putting then just 21-year-old composer Richard Strauss’s “Burleske” for piano and orchestra before ...

In the clear air of the high Alps, the horns would be heard across a great gorge ... comes along as one of the final Romantic composers, like Richard Strauss, writing from the 19th Century ...

Goodall examines the era, looking at some of the 20th century's greatest composers - Béla Bartók, Carl Orff, Richard Strauss and Dmitri Shostakovich - who each learnt to survive with their own ...