An Engraved Portrait of Richard Strauss

Engraved Portrait of Richard Strauss
author: Ferdinand Schmutzer, 1922
Private Collection, Vienna
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(http://www.ferdinand-schmutzer.com/schmutzer/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&layout=gallery&id=51&Itemid=8&start=1&lang=de&page=1)

Richard Strauss, along with Gustav Mahler, represents the late flowering of German Romanticism after Richard Wagner, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style.

(wiki)

• Late Spring - The Authority of Nietzsche (a fragment from R. Strauss, Also Sprach Zarathustra)
• Ariadne auf Naxos
• Eine Alpensinfonie
• Salomé

(Old Masters)