Richard Strauss: A Biography

Author: Brian Gillan (USA)
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Publish Date: 2001-06-01
Features: Richard Strauss posed a unique challenge to modern music: he preferred to blend the ordinary with the sublime, the mundane with the extraordinary, and was not a typical 19th or 20th-century composer in our impression. In this book, the author presents to us a Richard Strauss full of mysteries and confusions. Hidden within him are many sharp contradictions, such as the sublime and the ordinary, music and politics, art and money, and more. The author follows the clues, vividly portraying a Richard Strauss of temperament, bringing him to life on the page.