The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss is a composer much loved among audiences throughout the world, in both the opera house and the concert hall. Despite this popularity, Strauss was for many years ignored by scholars, who considered his commercial success and his continued reliance on the tonal system to be liabilities. However, the past two decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in the composer. This Companion surveys the results, focussing on the principal genres, the social and historical context, and topics perennially controversial over the last century. Chapters cover Strausss immense operatic output, the electrifying modernism of his tone poems, and his ever-popular lieder. Controversial topics are explored, including Strausss relationship to the Third Reich and the sexual dimension of his works. Reintroducing the composer and his music in light of recent research, the volume shows Strausss artistic personality to be richer and much more complicated than has been previously acknowledged.
Charles Youmans is Associate Professor of Music at Penn State University. He is the author of Richard Strauss and the German Intellectual Tradition (2005), and his articles and essays have appeared in 19th-Century Music, The Musical Quarterly , the Journal of Musicology , and various edited collections.
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The Cambridge companion to Richard Strauss / [edited by] Charles Youmans.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-521-89930-7 (hardback) ISBN 978-0-521-72815-7 (pbk.)
1. Strauss, Richard, 18641949Criticism and interpretation. I. Youmans, Charles Dowell,
1964 II. Title. III. Series. ML410.S93C36 2010
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