Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss

Name: Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss
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ISBN: 9780521728157

ISBN-10: 0521728150

ISBN-13: 9780521728157

Edition: 2010

Authors: Charles Youmans

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Richard Strauss is a composer much loved among audiences throughout the world, both in the opera house and the concert hall. Despite this popularity, Strauss was for many years ignored by scholars, who considered his commercial success and his continued reliance on the tonal system to be liabilities. However, the past two decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in the composer. This Companion surveys the results, focusing on the principal genres, the social and historical context, and topics perennially controversial over the last century. Chapters cover Strauss's immense operatic output, the electrifying modernism of his tone poems, and his ever-popular Lieder. Controversial…

Book details

Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/18/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 370
Size: 6.89" wide x 9.72" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Charles Youmans is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Penn State University.



Chronology of Strauss's life and career




Background



The musical world of Strauss's youth




Strauss's compositional process




Maturity and indecision in the early works




Works



The first cycle of tone poems




The second cycle of tone poems




Strauss's road to operatic success: Guntram, Feuersnot, and Salome




The Strauss-Hofmannsthal operas




Opera after Hofmannsthal




'Actually, I like my songs best': Strauss's Lieder




Last works




Perspectives



Strauss's place in the twentieth century




Musical quotation and allusion in the works of Richard Strauss




Strauss in the Third Reich




Strauss and the business of music




Kapellmeister Strauss




Strauss and the sexual body: the erotics of humor, philosophy, and ego-assertion




Strauss and the nature of music



Bibliography