Richard Strauss Late Romantic German Composer. Violin-Piano Sonata

Richard Strauss is not related with the Strauss Family, they only share the last name, Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 - 8 September 1949) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt. Along with Gustav Mahler, he represents the late flowering of German Romanticism, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style.
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