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Richard Strauss
German composer and orchestra director (1864–1949)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 11 June 1864
- Died
- 8 September 1949
- Place of birth
- Munich
- Place of death
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Strauss
- Father
- Franz Strauss
- Mother
- Josephine Strauss
- Spouse
- Pauline de Ahna
- Child
- Franz Strauss
- Genre
- opera, symphony, classical music, sardana
- Occupation
- composer, conductor, librettist, musician, general music director
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Religion
- Christian atheism
- Awards
- Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, honorary citizen of Munich, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal, honorary citizen of Vienna, Order of the Redeemer, Adlerschild des Deutschen Reiches, Order of the Iron Crown (Austria), Order of the Dannebrog, Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau, Order of the Oak Crown, Order of Saint-Charles
- archives at
- Richard-Strauss-Institut, Berlin State Library
- birth name
- Richard Georg Strauss
- catalogue raisonné
- Richard-Strauss-Werkverzeichnis
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Antologie z oper, New International Encyclopedia, Brief Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Composers, Dresdner Hefte
- different from
- Richard Strauss
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- has edition or translation
- Q61951181
- has works in the collection
- Royal Collections of the Netherlands
- instrument
- piano
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- list of works
- Richard Strauss thematisches Verzeichnis, list of compositions by Richard Strauss, Richard-Strauss-Werkverzeichnis
- member of
- Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
- name in native language
- Richard Strauss
- notable work
- Also sprach Zarathustra, Salome, Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos, Elektra
- place of burial
- Friedhof Garmisch
- related category
- Category:Compositions by Richard Strauss
- topic's main category
- Category:Richard Strauss
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