Twenty-nine years have passed since Richard Strauss’s Salome first shed her veils for Herod, shrieked her demands for the head of John the Baptist, groveled before it, kissed its cold lips. Scene was ...

Historians often use the term “the long 19th century” to refer to the period from the French Revolution (1789) to the First World War (1914). In music, this roughly corresponds with the period we call ...

Text by Joseph Von Eichendorff. German composer Richard Strauss led a full life. He was nearly always controversial, exciting and popular, whether as a brash teenager, composer of cutting-edge operas ...

An Alpine Symphony, by Richard Strauss, depicts a dawn to dusk climb up a mountain. We've rounded up two Alpine Symphony experts to be our trail guides up the mountain. Semyon Bychkov is conducting ...

Four harps, a wind machine and a heckelphone feature on this little known score for an abandoned Nijinsky ballet. Ballet music is not something Richard Strauss is often remembered for, and Josephs ...

For the last of this series, we turn to one of the greatest of all composers for the human voice, a man who lived through the Third Reich and two world wars, and whose gorgeously expressive music ...

Music has an effect on human beings. Listening to classical music maestros Wolfgang Mozart and Johann Strauss for 25 minutes lowered blood pressure and heart rate. It is well-known that listening to ...

Harrowing tales of mountain climbing filled theaters this summer in such films as Meru and Everest. But exactly 100 years ago today, audiences took a different kind of climb when Richard Strauss ...