Author: Rudolf Hartmann
Title: Richard Strauss the Staging of His Operas and Ballets
Description: Oxford, Phaidon, 1982. Cloth. A nice clean copy of this illustrated biography of the German composer Strauss. An early edition. Richard Georg Strauss (1864 –1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, particularly of operas, Lieder and tone poems. Strauss was also a prominent conductor. To Richard Strauss went the honour of being the composer of the music on the first compact disc ever commercially released: Herbert von Karajan's 1980 recording of the Alpine Symphony, released by Deutsche Grammophon in 1983. In the original publisher's cloth binding with the original unclipped dustwrapper and slipcase. Externally, smart. Only light edgewear to the dustwrapper. Several light handling marks to the slipcase. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the odd spot to the first and last few pages. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Fine.

Keywords: strauss richard georg strauss composer romantic richard georg strauss Not Stated


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