The Life of Richard Strauss

By Bryan Gilliam

Richard Strauss' successful conducting and composing career spanned one of the most fascinating stretches of modern German history, from oil lamps to atomic energy, from a young empire to a divided Germany. This biography covers Strauss' early musical development, his emergence as a tone poet in the late nineteenth century, his turn to the stage at the beginning of the twentieth century, the successes and misfires of the post-World War I era, the turbulent 1930s, and the period of the Second World War and its aftermath.  

Paperback
212 pages
Cambridge University Press, 1999
5.5 x 0.53 x 8.5 inches
9780521578950 ISBN
Music, Biography