Bücher von Bryan (Duke University Gilliam

Richard Strauss' fifteen operas make up the largest German operatic legacy since Wagner's operas of the nineteenth century. In the first book to discuss all of Strauss' operas, Bryan Gilliam explores the composer's response to Wagner in his discussion of Strauss's stage works and their historical contexts.

This biography covers Strauss's musical development, his emergence as a tone poet in the late nineteenth century, his turn to the stage early in the twentieth century, the successes and failures of the post-World War I era, the turbulent 1930s, and the period during the Second World War and its aftermath.