Previous posts for Richard Strauss's birthday are found here: (2019), (2020), and also Richard Strauss; Hazel Scott (2021), Richard Strauss (2022), and Hazel Scott (2023)
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Richard Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) as a German composer, especially known for operas, orchestral showpieces, and art songs.
Til There Was You
There’s a kind of vertiginous thrill
In the opening solo of Til.
It’s a stress that is borne
By the solo french horn
Who’s in danger of taking a spill.
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Richard Strauss and the Philosopher’s Tone
A critic who heard Also sprach
Was heard to expostulate, “Ach!
Aside from chronology,
It’s Nietzsche’s theology
That keeps it from being like Bach.
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Carlisle Floyd (11 June 1926 – 30 September 2021) was an American composer primarily known for his operas.
There’s No Accounting for…
It’s not that I’ve never enjoyed
The music of Carisle Floyd,
But I find that his stuff,
While it’s pleasant enough,
Is something I’d rather avoid.
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