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Conducting Electricity: Strauss piece steeped in history
Florida Times-Union
Historians often use the term “the long 19th century” to refer to the period from the French Revolution (1789) to the First World War (1914).
In music, this roughly corresponds with the period we call “Romanticism,” from Mozart’s late works through Beethoven, Schubert, Berlioz and Wagner all the way to Richard Strauss. The period ends, abruptly, with the advent of modernism, ushered in by Stravinsky’s ballet “The Rite of Spring” and Schoenberg’s atonal works. From that point on, Romanticism was passé, no longer reflecting the spirit of the age.
As a young composer, Strauss (1864-1949) was seen as a modernist. His operas “Salome” and “Elektra” did everything modern music was supposed to, pushing the limits of harmony, expanding the size of the orchestra and shocking audiences. He did everything to the maximum. But with the arrival of Stravinsky and Schoenberg, Strauss retreat