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 ...

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 ...

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 ...