Richard Strauss Archive

Richard Strauss composed this twenty-minute single-movement composition for piano and orchestra between 1885 and 1886, when he was 21 years old. I suspect one of the reasons I like the piece so much is that …

The song “Morgen” (“Tomorrow!”) is the last in a set of four songs composed in 1894 by the German composer Richard Strauss. It is designated Opus 27, Number 4. The German love poem “Morgen!” which …

RICHARD STRAUSS (1864-1949) Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40, “A Hero’s Life” The key of E-flat major is the heroic key in music.  As such, its roots are usually traced to Beethoven’s “Eroica” symphony, but in fact, …

Yes… I know… I have posted about this singer before, and also about the music of Richard Strauss. However, I enjoy both the composer and the performer so here we go again. Ms. Karg has …

I love the way in which German Soprano Christiane Karg sings the songs by Richard Strauss. She has the sense, I believe, that Strauss composed so many of these songs for his wife, Pauline, who …