Franz Strauss (1822–1905) is perhaps most famous for being the father of Richard Strauss, the well-known composer. He was himself an accomplished musician and composer playing the guitar and clarinet among others. He is remembered most often today as a horn player. He was not just any horn player of the day, for almost fifty years he was principal horn of the Munich Court Orchestra. This was the orchestra that premiered many of Wagner's great works. Strauss himself performed in the premieres of Tristan und Isolde, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre and surely many more. Strauss however disliked very much the works of Wagner and did not get along well with the composer either. Wagner, speaking of Strauss, said, "Strauss is an unbearable, curmudgeonly fellow, but when he plays his horn one can say nothing, for it is so beautiful." As a composer, he is remembered mostly for the pieces he wrote for horn. Undoubtly his famous son Richard was influenced through hearing one of the great horn players of the time in his own home growing up. 1822 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1905 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Richard Strauss (June 11, 1864 – September 8, 1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic era, particularly noted for his tone poems and operas. ... The classical guitar typically has 3 nylon and 3 nickel-wound strings. ... A bass clarinet, which sounds an octave lower than the more common Bb soprano clarinet. ... The horn is a brass instrument that consists of tubing wrapped into a coiled form. ... Wagner may refer to more than one place in the United States: Wagner, South Dakota Wagner, Wisconsin Wagner may refer to more than one person: Richard Wagner, German composer Wagner, a character in Marlowes play Doctor Faustus, and Gounods opera Faust Heinrich Leopold Wagner, dramatist and author John... Tristan und Isolde is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. ... Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold) is the first of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. ... Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) is the second of the four operas that comprise Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. ...
External links
The IHS Franz Strauss Bio (http://www.hornsociety.org/RESOURCES/famous/F-Strauss.html)
STRAUSS, RICHARD (1864-),), German composer, was born at Munich on the Ilth of June 1864, the son of FranzStrauss, an eminent hornist.
To some extent a prodigy, Strauss was something of a pianist at four, a composer at six, and at ten he was already seriously studying music under F. Meyer, the Munich Hofkapellmeister.
But to Billow, and even more to Alexander Ritter, Strauss owed the awakening in his own mind of the interest in the modern development of music that eventually in its ripeness placed Strauss at the very top of the composers' tree of his time.
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