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The Richard Strauss Companion
Mark-Daniel Schmid
ISBN: 0-313-27901-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-27901-0
480 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 9/30/2003
List Price: $125.00 (UK Sterling Price: £86.95)
Discount Price: $62.50 Sale Price for U.S. Customers Only. Save 50%. Ends 12/31/2009.
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Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Featuring ten new essays on different aspects of the compositions, artistic influences, and persona of Richard Strauss, The Strauss Companion explores the composer's relationship to his own work and to that of his noted contemporaries. Guided by not only musical interests but literary, political, and philosophical ones as well, Strauss is an ideal candidate for this sort of treatment. Following this discussion of his influences, the volume moves to a discussion of the works themselves, including operas, tone poems, and stage works; these compositions are explored analytically and also in terms of their critical reception. The final chapter investigates for the first time Strauss's much-neglected choral works, revealing their rich musical and vocal capacities, while a select bibliography and complete works-list round out the volume.

These colorful and intriguing essays are written by some of the foremost American, German, British, and Canadian Strauss scholars of our time, making it an important resource for students not only of Strauss's work, but of all musical composition and art music.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Bryan Gilliam
    Preface
    Abbreviations
    Influences
    The Influences of Richard Strauss by Heiner Wajemann
    Strauss and His Contemporaries: Critical Perspectives by Peter Franklin
    The Development of Richard Strauss's Worldview by Charles D. Youmans
    Instrumental Works
    Richard Strauss's Tone Poems by Walter Werbeck
    The Early Reception of Richard Strauss's Tone Poems by Mark-Daniel Schmid
    From "Too Many Works" to "Wrist Exercises": The Abstract Instrumental Compositions of Richard Strauss by Scott Warfield
    Vocal Works
    Richard Strauss before Salome: The Early Operas and Unfinished Stage Works by Morten Kristiansen
    The Late Operas of Richard Strauss by James L. Zychowicz
    Richard Strauss's Imagination by Pierre Marc Bellemare
    The Lieder of Richard Strauss by Christine Getz
    The Challenge of the Choral Works by Suzanne M. Lodato
    Selected Bibliography by Scott Warfield
    Index of Musical Works
    General Index
    About the Contributors
About the Author: MARK-DANIEL SCHMID is an Assistant Professor of Music History and Literature and Piano at Mansfield University in Mansfield, Pennsylvania. Having previously taught for several years at the Musikschule Leinfelden-Echterdingen in Germany, his scholarly interests include Richard Strauss, Frantisek Xaver Dusek, and film music.
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