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Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; his tone poems, including Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration, Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Also sprach Zarathustra, Ein Heldenleben, Symphonia Domestica, and An Alpine Symphony; and other instrumental works such as Metamorphosen and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying quasi-celebrity status as his compositions became standards of orchestral and operatic repertoire.

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I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher.

Accurately, Beer, Glasses, Pilsner, Want

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

Classics, Converted, Ends, Old, Remain, True

The most perfect melodic shapes are found in Mozart; he has the lightness of touch which is the true objective. . . Listen to the remarkable expansion of a Mozart melody, to Cherubino's 'Voi che sapete', for instance. You think it is coming to an end, but it goes farther, even farther.

Expansion, Instance, Perfect, Shapes, Thinking, Touch

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play.

Beautiful, Human, Instrument, Play, Voice

On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.

Balance, Barely, Conducting, Hear, Perfect

If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees.

Couple, Degrees, Enough, Think, Thinking

Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und Verklärung.

Composed, Dying, Funny, Funny Things, Way

He'd be better off shoveling snow.

Better Off, Musical, Shoveling, Snow

Must one become seventy years old to recognize that one's greatest strength lies in creating musical kitsch?

Become, Creating, Lying, Strength, Years

Never look at the brass - it only encourages them.

Brass, Encourages, Look, Looks, Music

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

Composer, Inspiring, Music, Second Chance

The aria, after all, is the soul of opera.

Aria, Opera, Soul

don't perspire while conducting - only the audience should get warm.

Audience, Conducting, Perspire, Should

Never look at the trombones, you'll just encourage them.

Encourage, Look, Looks, Performing, Trombone, Trombones

Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen.

Ideas, Storage, Taken, Wine, Young