Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma
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Originally published | 1995 |
Authors | Michael Kennedy |
Genres | Biography |
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ID | 2081595 |
About Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma
"I cannot bear the tragedy of the present time," wrote Richard Strauss in 1924. "I want to create joy. I need it. " In a career that extended from the age of Wagner and Brahms to the middle of the twentieth century, Strauss wrote music that kept alive the German Romantic ideals of melody and emotional expressiveness. . . .