Richard Strauss - Richard Strauss Richard Strauss (June 11, 1864 - September 8, 1949) was a German composer of classical music particularly noted for his tone poems and operas. He was also a noted conductor. He was born on June 11, 1864 in Munich, Germany, the son of Franz Strauss who was the principal French horn player at the Court Opera in Munich. He received a thorough, but conservative, musical education from his father in his youth, and began to compose at a very early age. In 1882 he entered Munich University, but left a year later to go to Berlin. There he studied briefly before securing a post as assistant conductor to Hans von Bülow taking over from him at Munich when he resigned in 1885. His compositions.
Strauss - Strauss Strauss, the German word for ostrich, is also the surname of a number of notable figures: Claude Levi-Strauss, anthropologist Cristoph Strauss (around 1580 - 1631), composer Eduard Strauss (1835 - 1916), composer, son of Johann I Franz Strauss (1822 - 1905), horn player and composer Ida Straus, died in in the sinking of the Titanic, wife of Isadore Isadore Straus, owner of R.H. Macy Co Johann Strauss I (1804 - 1849), composer, popularizer of the waltz Johann Strauss II (1825 - 1899), composer, son of Johann I, known as the "Waltz King" Johann Strauss III (1866 - 1939), composer, son of Eduard Josef Strauss (1827 - 1870), composer, son of Johann I Leo Strauss, political philosopher of Straussianism Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949), composer, son.
Karl Böhm - direct many of the world's best orchestras in Munich, Berlin, and Vienna. Böhm was a close colleague of Richard Strauss and directed many of Strauss' works at their premiere. He was also noted for his interpretations of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operas. Böhm died in Salzburg..
Karol Szymanowski - was later director there for a few years at the end of the 1920s). He travelled widely, throughout Europe and to the USA. He died in a sanatorium in Lausanne. Szymanowski's was influenced by the music of Richard Strauss, Max Reger, Alexander Scriabin and the impressionism of Claude Debussy. He also drew influence from his countryman Frederic Chopin and Polish folk music, and like Chopin he wrote a number of mazurkas for piano (the mazurka being a Polish folk dance). Among Szymanowski's better known works are his two violin concertos, the three Myths for violin and piano, his Stabat Mater, his four symphonies (No. 3 with choir and vocal soloists, No. 4 with a solo piano), the ballet Harnasie and his operas, Hagith and King Roger. He also wrote a quantity.
Kiri Te Kanawa - her natural parents. She began her singing career as a mezzo-soprano but later developed into a soprano. In her teens and early 20s, Te Kanawa was a popular entertainer in New Zealand. Her recording of the "Nuns' Chorus" from the Strauss's operetta Casanova was New Zealand's first-ever gold record. In 1965, she won a singing competition and received a grant to study in London. In 1966, she enrolled at the London Opera Centre. In 1971, Te Kanawa made her debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Countess Almaviva, in The Marriage of Figaro. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1974 as Desdemona. In subseqent years, she performed at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Paris Opera, Sydney Opera House, the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, San Francisco Opera, Munich.
January 9 - 1728 - Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England (†1790) 1748 - Stefan Paluselli, composer 1790 - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet 1811 - Gilbert Abbott a Beckett, English writer (†1856) 1815 - William Jackson, composer 1820 - Pavel Krizkovsky, composer 1829 - Thomas William Robertson, English playwright 1829 - Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer 1839 - John Knowles Paine, composer 1843 - Christiaan A Ulder, composer 1851 - Giuseppi Gallignani, composer 1851 - Luis Coloma, Spanish Jesuit writer, theologian 1854 - Jennie Jerome, American society beauty (†1921) 1856 - Anton Askerc, priest, poet 1856 - Lizette Woodworth Reese, poet 1856 - Stevan Mokranjac, composer 1857 - Henry B. Fuller, writer 1859 - Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, women's rights leader, founder of the League of Women Voters 1859.
June 11 - 1963 - The University of Alabama is desegregated 1977 - Seattle Slew wins the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing Births 1519 - Cosimo I de Medici, duke of Florence (+ 1574) 1572 - Ben Jonson, dramatist (+ 1637) 1776 - John Constable, painter (+ 1837) 1842 - Carl von Linde, engineer and industrialist (+ 1934) 1864 - Richard Strauss, composer and conductor (+ 1949) 1867 - Charles Fabry, physicist (+ 1945) 1879 - Max Schreck, actor (+ 1936) 1880 - Jeannette Rankin, politician, feminist, pacifist (+ 1973) 1902 - Ernie Nevers, American football player (+ 1976) 1910 - Jacques Cousteau, explorer, inventor (+ 1997) 1913 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach 1920 - Hazel Scott, singer (+ 1981) 1925 - William Styron, author 1932 - Athol Fugard, playwright 1935 - Gene.
Julius Müller - founded and edited (1850-1861), with August Neander and KI Nitzsch, the Deutsche Zeitschrift für christliche Wissenschaft und christliches Leben. He died at Halle. A disciple of Neander and friend of Richard Rothe, Müller bitterly opposed the philosophy of Georg Hegel and the criticism of FC Baur. His book, Über den Gegensatz des Protestantismus und das Catholicismus (1833), called forth a reply from Baur, and he was one of those who attacked David Strauss's Life of Jesus. In 1846 he had been deputed to attend the General Evangelical Synod at Berlin. Here he supported the Consensus-Union and afterwards defended himself in the pamphlets Die erste Generalsynode der evang. Landeskirche Preussens (1847) and Die evangelische Union, ihr Wesen und göttliches Recht (1854). His chief work, however, was Die christliche Lehre der Sünde (2.
Isaak August Dorner - Theologie des Neuen Testamentes and one of the most vigorous opponents of FC Baur. At Schmid’s suggestion, and with his encouragement, Dorner set to work on a history of the development of the doctrine of the person of Christ, Entwicklungsgeschichte der Lehre von der Person Christi. He published the first part of it in 1835, the year in which David Strauss, his colleague, published his Life of Jesus; completed it in 1839, and afterwards considerably enlarged it for a second edition (1845-1856). It was an indirect reply to Strauss, which showed, "profound learning, objectivity of judgment, and fine appreciation of the moving ideas of history" (Otto Pfleiderer). The author at once became highly regarded as a theologian and historian, and in 1839 was invited to Kiel as professor ordinarius. It was.
Vienna State Opera - Mahler cultivated a new generation of singers, such as Anna Bahr-Mildenburg, Selma Kurz and Leo Slezak and recruited a stage designer who replaced the lavish historical stage décors for sparse stage scenery corresponding to modernistic, Jugendstil tastes. Mahler also introduced the practice of dimming the lighting in the theater during performances, which was initally not appreciate by the audience. However, Mahler´s reforms were maintained by his successors. Other conductors at Vienna have included Hans Richter, Felix Weingartner, Richard Strauss, Clemens Krauss, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter, Karl Böhm, Herbert von Karajan, Lorin Maazel, Claudio Abbado, and Ricardo Muti Until the directorship was taken over by von Karajan, Vienna maintained a permanent ensemble. Von Karajan introduced the policy of engaging guest singers..
Havergal Brian - the English working class. After attending an elementary school he had difficulty finding any congenial work, and taught himself the rudiments of music. For a time he was organist of Odd Rode Church just across the border in Cheshire. In 1895 he heard a choir rehearsing Elgar's King Olaf, attended the first performance and became a fervent enthusiast of the new music being produced by Richard Strauss and the British composers of the day. Through attending music festivals he made the lifelong friendship of his near-contemporary composer Granville Bantock (1868 - 1946). In 1907 his first English Suite attracted the attention of Henry Wood who performed it at the London Proms. It was an overnight success and Brian obtained a publisher and performances for his next few orchestral works. Why he.
Heckelphone - in the late 19th century. It is similar to a oboe but with a wider bore and a deeper sound. Richard Strauss's 1905 opera Salome calls for a heckelphone. See also: Piccolo heckelphone, List of musical instruments.
Herod Antipas - him to ruin, for it involved him in war with his original father-in-law, in which he lost an army. A later Christian interpolation inserted in Josephus' Antiquities moralizes the calamity 'as a punishment for what he did against John that was called the Baptist; for Herod slew him, who was a good man, and commanded the Jews to exercise virtue, both as to righteousness towards one another, and piety towards God, and so to come to baptism' (Antiquities, XVIII, v, 2). Both Matthew and Mark give the reason why Herodias sought the Baptist's head (Matthew xiv, 3-12; Mark vi, 17-29), out of which much legend has been spun, culminating in Richard Strauss' opera Salome, to a libretto of Oscar Wilde. (Josephus simply attributes John's execution to Herod's uneasy jealousy over John's.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal - published in George's journal, Blätter für die Kunst. He studied law, and later philology in Vienna, but decided to devote himself to writing upon graduating in 1901. Hofmannsthal met the composer Richard Strauss, and wrote libretti for several of his operas, the first being Elektra (1909). In 1912 he adapted the 15th century English morality play Everyman as Jedermann, and Jean Sibelius wrote incidental music for it. The play became a staple at the Salzburg Festival, which Hofmannsthal founded with Max Reinhardt in 1920. His later plays displayed an increasing interest with religious, and particularly with Roman Catholic themes. He died in Rodaun near Vienna..
G.I. Generation - as the Greatest Generation (after Tom Brokaw's book), the World War II Generation, the Veteran Generation, the Depression Generation, Builders, and the Traditional Generation or Traditionalists. The name "G.I. Generation" was coined by William Strauss and Neil Howe for their book Generations, who put its birthdates from 1901 to 1924. The term G.I. could stand for "government issue" or "general issue" and this generation stands for both. Their typical grandparents were of the Progressive Generation. Their parents were of the Missionary Generation and Lost Generation. Their children were of the Silent Generation and Baby boomers. Their typical grandchildren were of Generation X. A sample list of famous G.I.s with birth and death dates include: 1901 Louis Armstrong (1971) 1901 Walt Disney (1966) 1902 John Steinbeck (1968) 1903 Bob Hope (immigrant) (2003).
Georges Prêtre - French opera houses (sometimes under the nom de plume Georges Dherain) before making his Paris debut at the Opéra-Comique in Richard Strauss' Capriccio . His debut at the Royal Opera House, Convent Garden came in 1961, with first appearances at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, and La Scala, Milan, later in the 1960s. He worked with Maria Callas on a number of occasions, and made recordings of Carmen and Tosca with her. For a time he was music director of the Paris Opera. Aside from opera, Prêtre is best known for performances of French music. He is especially associated with Francis Poulenc, giving the premiere of his opera Le voix humaine at the Opéra-Comique in 1959 and his Sept répons des ténèbres in 1963. In 1999 he gave a series.
George Szell - grew up in Vienna, studying there and in Leipzig under Eusebius Mandyczewski, and, for a brief period, Max Reger. Richard Strauss appointed him to be his assistant at the Berlin Royal Opera before Szell went off to hold a number of conducting posts throughout Europe: in Berlin, Strasbourg (succeeding Otto Klemperer at the Municipal Theatre there), Prague, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf and Glasgow before becoming pricipal conductor of the Berlin Staatsoper (which by now had replaced the Royal Opera) in 1924. In 1930 he made his American debut with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. He was in the USA at the outbreak of World War II, and settled there. From 1942 to 1946 he was a regular conductor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. In 1946 he became an American citizen,.
Giuseppe Sinopoli - as a conductor. He was appointed principal conductor of the Philharmonia in 1984 and of the Staatskapelle Dresden in 1992, but is best known for his intense and sometimes controversial interpretations of opera, especially works by Italian composers and Richard Strauss. Sinopoli died while conducting Giuseppe Verdi's Aïda at the Deutsch Oper in Berlin..
Glenn Gould - to play there. One of his very last recordings was also of the Goldbergs, one of the few pieces which Gould recorded twice in the studio. Both recorded versions are critically acclaimed as some of the finest piano records ever made. The two recordings are very different, the first filled with energetic and skillful playing, the second was far slower and more introspective. Gould recorded pieces by most prominent piano composers, but was outspoken in his criticism of many of them, apparently not caring for Frederic Chopin, for example. He was fond of some of the lesser known byways of the repertoire, such as early keyboard music by the likes of Orlando Gibbons, and also made critically acclaimed recordings of little known piano music by Jean Sibelius, Richard Strauss and Paul.
Grammy Awards of 2002 - Michael H. Brauer (engineer) & Coldplay for Parachutes performed by Coldplay Blues Best Traditional Blues Album John P. Hampton, Jared Tuten (engineers) & Jimmie Vaughan (producer & artist) for Do You Get the Blues? Best Contemporary Blues Album Delbert McClinton, Gary Nicholson (producers), Richard Dodd, Don Smith (engineers) & Delbert McClinton for Nothing Personal Children's Best Musical Album for Children Ed Mitchell (producer), Jimmy Hoyson & Ric Wilson (engineers) for Elmo & the Orchestra performed by the Sesame Street cast Best Spoken Word Album for Children Arnold Cardillo (producer), Rory Young (engineer) & Tom Chapin for Mama Don't Allow Classical Best Orchestral Performance Helmut Burk & Karl-August Naegler (producers), Jobst Eberhardt, Stephan Flock (engineers), Pierre Boulez (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Boulez Conducts Edgar Varèse (Amériques; Arcana; Déserts; Ionisation).
