Historians often use the term “the long 19th century” to refer to the period from the French Revolution (1789) to the First World War (1914). In music, this roughly corresponds with the period we call ...

Text by Joseph Von Eichendorff. German composer Richard Strauss led a full life. He was nearly always controversial, exciting and popular, whether as a brash teenager, composer of cutting-edge operas ...

Autumn is in the air — you can just sense it. It's a feeling beyond just the evening chill, or noticing the calendar date (the autumnal equinox for the Northern Hemisphere officially takes place on ...

An Alpine Symphony, by Richard Strauss, depicts a dawn to dusk climb up a mountain. We've rounded up two Alpine Symphony experts to be our trail guides up the mountain. Semyon Bychkov is conducting ...

For the last of this series, we turn to one of the greatest of all composers for the human voice, a man who lived through the Third Reich and two world wars, and whose gorgeously expressive music ...

Four harps, a wind machine and a heckelphone feature on this little known score for an abandoned Nijinsky ballet. Ballet music is not something Richard Strauss is often remembered for, and Josephs ...

A prominent personality in the music world celebrated his 60th birthday; City of Vienna made this the occasion for a gala week. Honors both frothy and substantial were recklessly poured upon the head ...

Johann Strauss, seen here circa 1868, wrote what is probably the most famous waltz of all time: "The Blue Danube." (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Johann Strauss II, known as "The Waltz King," helped ...