Richard l strauss biography

Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading Germancomposer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known particularly for his operas, Lieder, and tone poems. Strauss, along with Gustav Mahler, represents the extraordinary late flowering of German Romanticism after Richard Wagner, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style. Strauss's music had a profound influence on the development of music in the twentieth century. Strauss was also a prominent conductor.

Life and works

Early life

Strauss was born on 11 June 1864, in Munich, the son of Franz Strauss, who was the principal horn player at the Court Opera in Munich. In his youth, he received a thorough musical education from his father. He wrote his first music at the age of six, and continued to write music almost until his death.

During his boyhood Strauss attended orchestra rehearsals of the Munich Court Orchestra, and he also received private instruction in music theory and orchestration from an assistant conductor there. In 1874 Strauss heard his first Wagner operas, Lohengrin and Tannhäuser. The influence of Wagner's music on Strauss's style was to be profound, but at first his musically conservative father forbade him to study it. Indeed, in the Strauss household, the music of Richard Wagner was viewed with deep suspicion, and it was not until the age of 16 that Strauss was able to obtain a score of Tristan und Isolde. In later life, Richard Strauss said that he deeply regretted the conservative hostility to Wagner's progressive works. Nevertheless, Strauss's father undoubtedly had a crucial influence on his son's developing taste, not least in Richard's abiding love for the French horn, whose warm sonority always had a central role in his orchestral style.

In 1882 he entered Munich University, where he studied philosophy and art history, but not music. H

"It's God's Word: You Can Count on It"

Those words echo in the memories of all who listened to Dr. Richard Strauss. His sincere manner of speech would ring with heartfelt conviction when he reassured people that the Bible is God’s inerrant Word "...and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work" (2 Tim. 3:16-17).

During his 60 years, Richard Strauss loved God, and he loved to study His Word. He spent hours each week poring over the Bible, allowing the Holy Spirit to teach him so that he could teach others. Through his sermons, books and tapes, Dr. Strauss made God’s eternal message relevant to thousands of people worldwide. He had a special gift for making the Bible come alive in a practical way.

Dr. Richard L. Strauss, senior pastor of Emmanuel Faith Community Church in Escondido, California for 21 years. Prior to that he served as pastor in Ft. Worth, Texas, and Huntsville, Alabama. He died of multiple myeloma (cancer of the bone marrow) September 11, 1993, and is now with our Lord.

View or download the book made from the journal entries of Richard and Mary Strauss as they dealt with his last illness: I'll See You in the Morning.

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Richard L. Strauss

B.A. Wheaton College, 1954
Th.M. Dallas Theological Seminary, 1958
Th.D. Dallas Theological Seminary, 1962

Served on U.S. Board of Directors of SIM International

Member of the Board of Regents and Board of Incorporate Members at Dallas Theological Seminary

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. 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, Don Quixote, Ein Heldenleben, Symphonia Domestica, and An Alpine Symphony. His first opera to achieve international fame was Salome, which used a libretto by Hedwig Lachmann that was a German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde. This was followed by several critically acclaimed operas with librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Die ägyptische Helena, and Arabella. His last operas, Daphne, Friedenstag, Die Liebe der Danae and Capriccio used libretti written by Joseph Gregor, the Viennese theatre historian. Other well-known works by Strauss include two symphonies, lieder (esp

August 1989 was a warm month to hear chilling news. The morning Richard Strauss and his wife, Mary, strode into the doctor’s office, they were braced for bad news but not for the grim journey on which they were about to embark.

Just six months earlier, while tussling with his grandkids, Richard felt one of his ribs pop. The pain was a nuisance but tolerable, and he mentioned it to Mary but pushed the pain aside. A few months later, while squeezing a metal trash can to cram the lid back on, Richard felt the same pop and pain. He dismissed the incident as he had earlier.

Summer soon arrived, and Richard, pastor of Emmanuel Faith Community Church in Escondido, California, was speaking at Camp of the Woods in New York. When he visibly struggled to lift a suitcase into the car trunk, Mary urged him to see a doctor. Only weeks later, while reaching for his Bible to preach at a conference in Oregon, he felt another rib pop. He saw a doctor right away and immediately was marched through a battery of tests.

“We’re fairly certain,” the doctor said that August morning, “you have a disease called multiple myeloma.”

“Is that cancer?” Richard asked.

“Cancer of the bone marrow.”

“What’s the prognosis?”

“It’s treatable, but as far as we know, it’s not curable.”

The disease, he learned, softens the bones, causing them to decompose and become vulnerable to breaking. The bones heal very slowly. The popping Richard felt in his ribs was like the breaking of a soft chicken bone.

One physician warned: “You could break a bone by unscrewing a lid off a jar.” Or by sneezing. Or by getting out of bed. Or by stepping off a curb. Or by slamming a car door. Death inexorably approaches, either by kidney failure (because t