The facts of his career are too well known
to justify rehearsal.
The dates of the composition and first performances of his operas are:
"Rienzi," 1838-40; premiere in Dresden, 1842. "Tannhaeuser," 1843-45
(Paris version, 1860); Dresden, 1845. "Lohengrin," 1845-48; Weimar,
1850. "Das Rheingold," 1848-53; Munich, 1869. "Die Walkuere," 1848-56;
Munich, 1870. "Tristan und Isolde," 1857-59; Munich, 1865. "Siegfried,"
1857-69; Bayreuth, 1876. "Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg," 1861-67;
Munich, 1868. "Die Goetterdaemmerung," 1870-74; Bayreuth, 1876.
"Parsifal," 1876-82; Bayreuth, 1882.
STRAUSS
Richard Strauss was born in Munich June 11th, 1864. His father, Franz
Strauss, was first horn-player in the Munich Court Orchestra. His mother
was the daughter of the beer brewer, Georg Pschorr. He began composing
at the tender age of six. From 1870 to 1874 he attended the elementary
school at Munich. In 1874 he matriculated at the Gymnasium, and remained
there until 1882. During the next year he attended lectures at the
University of Munich. From 1875 to 1880 he studied harmony, counterpoint
and instrumentation with Hofkapellmeister F. W. Meyer. His compositions
were performed publicly from 1880 on. In 1885 he made the acquaintance
of Alexander Ritter, who, together with Hans von Buelow, is supposed to
have converted young Strauss, until then a good Brahmsian, to Wagnerism
and modernism.
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