Richard Strauss: A musical life
Yale University Press (Inbooks), $45 hb, 316 pp
Music
Richard Strauss: A musical life by Raymond Holden
by Michael Morley •
Over the decades, Richard Strauss has been well served by English-language commentators and scholars, ranging from George Bernard Shaw, through Norman del Mar’s magisterial three-volume study (1962–72), to Michael Kennedy’s shorter, though no less illuminating, critical biography (1999). The focus of Raymond Holden’s work is explicitly narrower than theirs, offering as it does a thorough documentation of Strauss’s career as a practising musician and jobbing conductor.
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