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Lauded as nothing less than the "greatest musical figure" of his time by Canadian musician, Glenn Gould, in 1962, Strauss also has attracted his share of posthumous epithets: in summary, an artist who lived off his own fat during his later years. Introducing his detailed work more as a broad explication than a firm ans

• Title : Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma
• Author : Michael Kennedy
• Rating : 4.74 (431 Vote)
• Publish : 2016-6-24
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 468 Pages
• Asin : 0521027748
• Language : English

Lauded as nothing less than the "greatest musical figure" of his time by Canadian musician, Glenn Gould, in 1962, Strauss also has attracted his share of posthumous epithets: in summary, an artist who lived off his own fat during his later years. Introducing his detailed work more as a broad explication than a firm answer to the Straussian riddle, Kennedy's scope includes the exuberant, extroverted Strauss of young adulthood as well as the phlegmatic and aloof middle-aged man who resembled a "prosperous bank manager;" the arch-fiend of modernism and the composer who redefined the term; a man who professed to lack all spiritual curiosity and a musician who penned the touching ballet Der Kometentanz; an at times almost humble family man and an artist who claimed to be as interesting as Napoleon and Alexander the Great. Kennedy also deals at length with Strauss' problematic relationship with Nazi authorities, detailing his incompatible roles as the father-in-law of a Jewish woman and a

While steering clear of Freudian reductionism, Kennedy reveals the crucial significance of Strauss's mother's nervous instability--she was eventually committed to various sanatoriums--and the centrality of the work ethic inherited from his father. Once considered a dangerous firebrand of the avant-garde--his early masterpiece Salome was given the equivalent of an X rating--Strauss remained an exceedingly prolific composer throughout his long career, yet lived to be "written off as an extinct volcano." The painful story of his involvement with the Third Reich further cast a pall over his final years. In his view, Strauss becomes a "tragic figure, symbolising the struggle to preserve beauty and style in Western European culture" against emerging barbarism. Although commenta

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Michael Kennedy has been Chief Music Critic on the Sunday Telegraph since 1989. He is the author of numerous books including studies of Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Walton, and also The Oxford Dictionary of Music (2nd edn 1994); Mahler (J.M. Dent, Master Musicians series, 1981, 2nd edition 1993, OUP, 1994) and Portrait of Walton (OUP, 1990)

. He was awarded an OBE in 1981. From 1960 to 1986 he was Northern Editor of the Daily Telegraph and the paper's music critic from 1950 to 1989