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Richard Strauss

1864 - 1949

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Richard Georg Strauss (; German: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈʃtʁaʊs] ; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer and conductor known for his tone poems and operas. A leading figure of the late Romantic and early Modern era, and a successor to Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt, he combined, along with his friend Gustav Mahler, subtleties of orchestration with an advanced harmonic style. His compositional output began in 1870 when he was just six years old and lasted until his death nearly eighty years later. His first tone poem to achieve wide acclaim was Don Juan, and this was followed by other lauded works of this kind, including Death and Transfiguration, Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote, Ein Heldenleben, Symphonia Domestica, and An Alpine Symphony. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Strauss is the 33rd most popular composer, the 77th most popular biography from Germany (down from 75th in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Composer.

Richard Strauss is most famous for his operas, including "Salome" and "Elektra."

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Among composers, Richard Strauss ranks 33 out of 1,451. Before him are Claude Debussy, Bedřich Smetana, Jacques Offenbach, Dmitri Shostakovich, Ennio Morricone, and Sergei Rachmaninoff. After him are Sergei Prokofiev, Jean Sibelius, Béla Bartók, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Domenico Scarlatti, and Camille Saint-Saëns.

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Among people born in 1864, Richard Strauss ranks 2. Before him is Max Weber. After him are Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Wilhelm Wien, George Washington Carver, Camille Claudel, Alois Alzheimer, Walther Nernst, Maurice Leblanc, Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, Hermann Minkowski, and Alfred Hermann Fried. Among people deceased in 1949, Richard Strauss ranks 2. Before him is Maurice Maeterlinck. After him are Sigrid Undset, George Gurdjieff, Georgi Dimitrov, Edward Thorndike, Leonard Bloomfield, Kim Jong-suk, Margaret Mitchell, Friedrich Bergius, Hassan al-Banna, and James Ensor.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Richard Strauss ranks 77 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762), Erich Fromm (1900), Ambrose (340), Albertus Magnus (1206), Karl Lagerfeld (1933), and Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (1361). After him are Theodor Mommsen (1817), Helmut Kohl (1930), Emil Fischer (1852), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805), and Martin Bormann (1900).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Richard Strauss ranks 9. Before him are George Frideric Handel (1685), Richard Wagner (1813), Johannes Brahms (1833), Robert Schumann (1810), Felix Mendelssohn (1809), and Jacques Offenbach (1819). After him are Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681), Carl Maria von Weber (1786), Carl Orff (1895), Johann Christian Bach (1735), and Hans Zimmer (1957).

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