![]() ![]() Franz' preference for the music of the classical and early Romantic eras also seems to have shaped his son's early compositional efforts to a considerable extent. His father directed the Wilde Gung'l, an amateur orchestra that played in a Munich tavern, and young Richard was a frequent and curious visitor at rehearsals, and he eventually joined the orchestra, in 1885, playing among the first violins for three years. The teen-aged composer's assured writing could also be attributed to his first-hand knowledge of the orchestra. ![]() The beauty of Franz Strauss' horn playing certainly influenced his son's writing for winds in the Serenade, which utilizes four of his father's instrument along with double woodwinds and contrabassoon (or double bass or tuba, depending on the available resources). Even Wagner was forced to admit of Strauss Senior that "when he plays his horn, one cannot stay cross with him." ![]() Stories abound about clashes between Franz Strauss and Wagner, with the horn player railing against Wagner's music while playing it with incomparable skill and beauty. Strauss Senior was decidedly unsympathetic when it came to "new" music, and no one was newer in late-19th-century Munich than Wagner. To him Beethoven's later works, from the Finale of the Seventh Symphony onward, were no longer 'pure' music (one could begin to scent in them that Mephistophelian figure Richard Wagner)." To these were added Schubert, as song-writer, Weber, and, at some distance, Mendelssohn and Spohr. According to Richard, "His musical trinity was Mozart (above all), Haydn, and Beethoven. Franz' musical tastes were fairly conservative. In true prodigy style, he had already published a string quartet, a piano sonata, some shorter piano pieces, and an orchestral march, and his catalogue of unpublished compositions included a full-length symphony.Īs the teen-aged son of the Munich court orchestra's principal horn player Franz Strauss, the young Richard already lived in a world saturated with music. Richard Strauss had just turned seventeen when he composed his Serenade for 13 wind instruments in 1881. Orchestration: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 hornsįirst Los Angeles Philharmonic performance: December 19, 1927, Georg Schnéevoigt conducting ![]()
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