Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949).
Artist: Max Liebermann.
Date: 1918.
Collection: Alte Nationalgalerie.
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Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German Composer and Conductor known for his tone poems and operas.
A leading figure of the Late-Romantic and Early-Modern era, and a successor to Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt,[1] he combined, along with his friend Gustav Mahler, subtleties of orchestration with an advanced harmonic style.
From May to September 1948, just before his death, Strauss composed “Four Last Songs”, which deal with the subject of dying.
The last one, “Im Abendrot” (“At Sunset”), ends with the line “Is this perhaps death ?”
In June 1948, he was cleared of any wrong-doing by a “De-Nazification” Tribunal in Munich.[1]
That same month, he orchestrated “Ruhe, meine Seele !” (“Peace, My Soul”), a song that he had originally composed in 1894.[1]
