Twenty-nine years have passed since Richard Strauss’s Salome first shed her veils for Herod, shrieked her demands for the head of John the Baptist, groveled before it, kissed its cold lips. Scene was ...

Richard Strauss. He's the firebrand composer who revolutionised the technical and expressive possibilities of the orchestra before the end of the 19th century in his tone-poems such as Also Sprach ...

Harrowing tales of mountain climbing filled theaters this summer in such films as Meru and Everest. But exactly 100 years ago today, audiences took a different kind of climb when Richard Strauss ...

From the classical archive, 8 August 1912: The Guardian reports on Richard Strauss’s latest composition Richard Strauss has just finished his latest composition – incidental music to Moliere’s comedy ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Strauss’ “Blue Danube” is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the waltz king’s birth. The classical piece will be beamed into the cosmos as it’s ...

Music has an effect on human beings. Listening to classical music maestros Wolfgang Mozart and Johann Strauss for 25 minutes lowered blood pressure and heart rate. It is well-known that listening to ...