Richard Strauss (1864-1949) was a German conductor and composer of both innovative late-Romantic and Modernist music. He is best known for his symphonic poems and operas like Salome and Elektra, both of which caused a sensation. Strauss gained a whole new generation of admirers when his Also sprach Zarathustra was used in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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1864 - 1949Life of the German composer Richard Strauss.
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11 Jun 1864The composer Richard Strauss is born in Munich, Germany.
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1885Richard Strauss becomes the assistant and then principal conductor of the Meiningen orchestra.
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1886Richard Strauss takes up a conducting post at the Munich court opera.
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1894Richard Strauss marries the soprano singer Pauline de Ahna.
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1894Richard Strauss' first opera Guntram is a failure.
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1896The premiere of Richard Strauss' symhponic poem Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
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1897Richard Strauss' son Franz is born.
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1905The premiere of Richard Strauss' opera Salome.
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1909The premiere of Richard Strauss' opera Elektra.
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1911the premiere of Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier.
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1915Richard Struass composes his symphonic poem Ein Alpensinfonie.
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1936Richard Strauss composes the score for a Nazi film on the Berlin Olympics.
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1942The premiere of Richard Strauss' final opera Capriccio.
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1948Richard Strauss composes his Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs).
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8 Sep 1949The composer Richard Strauss dies at his home in Garmisch.
