Richard Strauss
| Richard Strauss was a German composer of classical music, used in program Romanticism. He was the son of composer Franz Strauss and a student of Hans von Bülow, a student of Franz Liszt who married Cosima Liszt, who later married Richard Wagner (premieres with Franz Strauss as horn player). He wrote music to the story of Till Uelenspiegel, Don Juan of Lord Byron, Salomé of Oscar Wilde, Don Quixote of Miguel de Cervantes, Elektra of Sophocles, Daphne of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Also Sprach Zarathustra of Friedrich Nietzsche. He was a friend of Gustav Mahler and worked with jewish librettist Stefan Zweig, a friend of Sigmund Freud and Arthur Schnitzler. His opera Der Rosenkavalier was directed by Max Reinhardt with a libretto of Hugo von Hoffmanstahl (friend of Stefan George, Young Vienna group with Karl Kraus and Arthur Schnitzler). |  |
Several of his opera's (Ariadne auf Nexos, performed at Julliard School) were based on the plays of Molière. He worked at the Salzburg Festival, founded by Reinhardt and Hoffmanstahl.
The Legend of Joseph and Till Uelenspiegel were performed at the Ballets Russes.
He was painted by Max Liebermann (Manifesto of the 93). He collaborated with the nazi's. Paula Neumann, the grandmother of his jewish daughter-in-law Alice was an inmate of the Theresienstadt Ghetto.
born 6/11/1864.
died 9/8/1949.
His work Also Sprach Zarathustra was used in Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey, live shows of Elvis Presley and Andy Kaufman and Magnolia with Tom Cruise.