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Richard Strauss
Germany
11.06.1864
08.09.1949
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra op. 30
- Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings
- Four last Songs
- Concerto in D major for Oboe and Small Orchestra
- Der Bürger als Edelmann op. 60
- Death and Transfiguration op. 24
- Don Quixote, Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character op. 35
- Rosenkavalier-Suite
- Ariadne on Naxos
- Die Frau ohne Schatten (The woman without a shadow)
- Salome
- Capriccio
- From Italy op. 16
- Symphonic Fantasy on 'Die Frau ohne Schatten op. 65'
- Macbeth op. 23
- Domestic Symphony op. 53
- String Quartet A Major op. 2
- Himmelsboten, op. 32 Nr. 5
- Barkarole, op. 17 Nr. 6
- Ständchen, op. 17 Nr. 2
- Die Nacht, op. 10 Nr. 3
- Horn Concerto No 2 E-flat major
- Horn Concerto No 1 op. 11
- Don Juan op. 20
- Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks op. 28
- Elektra
- Symphony No. 2 F minor op. 12
- Waltz sequence No. 2 'Rosenkavalier op. 59'
- Waltz Sequence No. 1 'Rosenkavalier op. 59'
- Dance suite from keyboard pieces by François Couperin
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