The dramatic power, soaring intensity and grandeur in the operas and tone poems Strauss wrote between 1885 and 1910 has never been equalled. For his remaining 40 years, while certainly not resting on ...

Like many eventual conservatives, the composer ... Richard Strauss’s 60-year-old tone poem “Death and Transfiguration” immediately after the soprano sings her final line: “Ist dies etwa ...