Richard strauss composer biography kids

BIOGRAPHY

Richard Strauss’s father, Franz, was a professional horn player who taught his son about music from a very early age.

Richard strauss composer biography kids

Richard was composing at the age of six, and his first symphony composition was performed when he was only 17! When Strauss was 21, he became the conductor of the Meiningen Orchestra and later became the junior conductor at the Munich Opera.

As Strauss entered his mid-20’s he began exploring a new type of composition called a “tone poem” – a piece of music that is meant to tell a specific story with instrumental sections of the orchestra representing certain characters.

It was tone poems such as Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegels Merry Pranks) that allowed him to be recognized in Germany as a leading and modern composer. Strauss had a very good sense of humor, and would often include himself in the stories that he wanted his tone poems to tell.

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