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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 September 2011
      18 November 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511782060
      9780521899307
      9780521728157
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521899307
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.87kg, 370 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.73kg, 370 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Opera, Music: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Music
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    Subjects:
    Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Opera, Music: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Music
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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 topics are explored, including Strauss's relationship to the Third Reich and the sexual dimension of his works. Reintroducing the composer and his music in light of recent research, the volume shows Strauss's artistic personality to be richer and much more complicated than has been previously acknowledged.

    Reviews

    '[A] superbly assembled portmanteau portrait … Readers new or already familiar with Strauss will find much else here to engage and argue with in a valuable contribution to understanding the multi-faceted enigma of the man behind the music.’

    Source: Classical Music

    ‘5/5 - Readers new to or already familiar with Strauss will find much else here to engage and argue with in a valuable contribution to understanding the multi-faceted enigma of the man behind the music.’

    Source: Classical Music

    'The contributions are both up to date in their scholarship and eminently readable, while the copious notes to each chapter provide invaluable links to further research.'

    Source: Music and Letters

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