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German composer and conductor (1864–1949)

For other people with similar names, see Richard Strauss (disambiguation).

Richard Georg Strauss (German:[ˈʁɪçaʁtˈʃtʁaʊs]^ⓘ; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer and conductor best known for his tone poems and operas.

Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt.^[1] Along with Gustav Mahler, he represents the late flowering of German Romanticism, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style.

Strauss's 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,