Son Richard wrote conventional, unexciting music at first. When he was 22 he spent a spring in Italy where the sun seemed to thaw his academic training.

All this week on Voices Carry at 2pm, we are taking a deep dive into Richard Strauss’ final love letter, his Vier letzte ...

1864 - on June 11, Richard Strauss is born in Munich as the son of horn player Franz Strauss and his wife Josephine. 1881 - In Munich, Hermann Levi conducts the premiere of the D Minor Symphony by ...

But the esteem was not reciprocated, and Franz kept his prodigiously talented son Richard away from the later 19th-century music he so disliked; only the classics and approved earlier 19th-century ...