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Richard strauss is born in the German city of munich.
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Strauss first hears his wagner operahs.
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Richard strauss goes to the munich university. But only learns philosophy & art history but not music.
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Strauss makes some peices. Such as Violin Sonata in E flat.
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Richard STrauss marries an operah woman named Paulne De Ahna. & gets a son named Franz.
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Near the end of the 19 century (1800) he made 2 new attempts in genre. Guntram (1894) & Feursnot (1901).
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Strauss produced salome one tht somewhat dissonant modernist operah based ont eh play Oscar Wilde.
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All his life Strauss made Lieder. His four last songs are one of his best known. Along with "Zueignug", "Cacilie", "Morgen" & more.
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Richard always tried to avoid the Nazi party for reasons. Hitler an ardent Wagnerian music lover admired Strauss's since Solome in 1907.
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In 1938, when the entire nation was preparing for war, Strauss created Friedenstag (Peace Day), a one-act opera set in the sieged fortress during the Thirty Years' War.
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Strauss completed the composition of Metamorphosen, a work for 23 solo strings, in 1945. The title and inspiration for the work comes from a profoundly examining poem by Goethe.
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Richard Strauss the person that made numerous famous songs int he operah & in the orchestra. Died in September 8 in 1949 from old age in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. A few months later his wife Paula De Ahna died on May 1950 at the age of 88.
