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.

A ll this week on Voices Carry at 2pm, we are taking a deep dive into Richard Strauss’ final love letter, his Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs).

A composer's life Marita Berg / rf06/10/2014 Richard Strauss (1864-1949) lived through several musical eras - and shaped them deeply. "Others compose; I make music history," the maestro said at ...

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 ...