One of the last wishes of the late Richard Strauss was that Kirsten Flagstad should be the soprano to introduce the four songs which he finished in 1948, the year before his death at 85 (TIME, Sept.

In 1948, German composer Richard Strauss set Hermann Hesse's beautiful poem "September" to music, but he didn't live to hear it on stage. It's part of a set now known as Four Last Songs, a song cycle ...

Olin Downes, music critic for the New York Times, made a point of attending the Richard Strauss Festspiele at Frankfort-am-Main the last days of August; and it was his chance to watch ...

In “Morgen!,” written by Richard Strauss in 1894, solo violin rises from a bed of strings in a tender duet with harp. When the vocalist opens with the optimistic line “And tomorrow, the sun will shine ...

Beyond the challenging works themselves, the program proved notable in other respects. Theodore Thomas and the CSO gave the U.S. premieres of Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben in 1900 as well as the ...

(4) Letzte Lieder, '(4) Last Songs', Movements: Frühling (wds. Hesse) Renée Fleming, Soprano Munich Philharmonic Orchestra Christian Thielemann, Conductor Richard Strauss, Composer (4) Letzte Lieder, ...