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richard strauss
Title: richard strauss
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richard strauss
Biography
Richard Strauss was born June 11, 1864 in Munich, Germany. The German composer-conductor is best known for his operas and tone poems. His father was Franz Strauss, one of Germany's leading horn players. Strauss's musical career began at the age of 4 when he learned how to play the piano. By the age of 6 he was composing and by the age of 11 he was studying theory and composition [5, par. 1870]. At the age of 20, he made his conducting …showed first 75 words of 971 total…
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Richard Strauss
Composer Profile
Pual Maguire
December 4, 1999
Work Cited
1. Del Mar, Norman. Richard Strauss: A Critical Commentary
on his Life and Works. London: Barrie and Rockliff,
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Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1917.
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Macmillan Co., 1918.
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5. Nice, David. Richard Strauss: Biography. 1997. Online.
Internet. 1 Dec 1999. Available: richard-strauss.com.
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