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Richard Strauss (Richard Georg Strauss) was born on 11 June, 1864 in Munich, Bavaria [now Bavaria, Germany], is a soundtrack,music_department,writer. Discover Richard Strauss's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

Popular As Richard Georg Strauss
Occupation soundtrack,music_department,writer
Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 11 June, 1864
Birthday 11 June
Birthplace Munich, Bavaria [now Bavaria, Germany]
Date of death 8 September, 1949
Died Place Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany
Nationality Germany

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Who Is Richard Strauss's Wife?

His wife is Pauline de Ahna (11 September 1894 - 8 September 1949) ( his death) ( 1 child)

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Wife Pauline de Ahna (11 September 1894 - 8 September 1949) ( his death) ( 1 child)
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Richard Strauss Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Richard Strauss worth at the age of 85 years old? Richard Strauss’s income source is mostly from being a successful Soundtrack. He is from Germany. We have estimated Richard Strauss's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

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Source of Income Soundtrack

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1864

He was born Richard Georg Strauss on June 11, 1864, in Munich, Bavaria (now Germany). His father, named Franz Strauss, was the principal horn player at the Royal Opera in Munich. Young Strauss was taught music by his father. He wrote his first composition at the age of 6. From the age of 10 he studied music theory and orchestration with an assistant conductor of the Munich Court Orchestra. He was also attending orchestral rehearsals.

1874

In 1874 Strauss heard operas by Richard Wagner, but his father did not share his son's interest and forbade him to study Wagner's music until the age of 16. Strauss studied philosophy and art history at Munich University, then at Berlin University.

1885

In 1885 he replaced Hans von Bulow as the principal conductor of the Munich Orchestra. Strauss emerged from under his father's influence when he met Alexander Ritter, a composer, and the husband of one of the nieces of Richard Wagner. He abandoned his father's conservative style and began writing symphonic tone poems.

1894

In 1894, Strauss married soprano singer Pauline Maria de Ahna. She was famous for being dominant and ill-tempered, but she was also a source of inspiration to Strauss, resulting in the preferred use of the soprano voice in his compositions. The image of Richard Strauss and his music was abused by the Nazi propaganda machine, to a point of damaging the composer's posthumous reputation. Richard Strauss was trapped in Nazi Germany just as the Russian intellectuals were under Stalin in the Soviet regime. Strauss' name and music was used by the Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, who appointed Strauss, without his consent, to the State Music Bureau, as a mask on the ugly regime.

1896

Richard Strauss was a German composer best known for symphonic poem 'Also sprach Zarathustra' (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1896) used as the music score in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by director Stanley Kubrik.

1935

In 1935 Strauss was fired from his job at the State Music Bureau. He refused to remove from the playbill the name of his friend and opera librettist, the writer Stefan Zweig, who was Jewish. Later Gestapo intercepted a letter from Strauss to Zweig, where Strauss condemned the Nazis.

1936

Strauss was commissioned to write the Olympic Hymn for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. His cautious apolitical position was the only way to survive and to protect his daughter-in-law Alice, who was Jewish.

1938

Strauss' daughter-in-law Alice was placed under the house arrest in 1938.

1942

In 1942 Strauss managed to move his Jewish relatives to Vienna. There Alice and Strauss's son were later again arrested and imprisoned for two nights. Only Strauss' personal effort saved them. They were returned under house arrest until the end of the Second World War.

1949

Richard Strauss died on September 8, 1949, in Garmish-Partenkirchen, Germany at the age of 85.

1980

Five days after the Allies had landed on D-Day, Hitler sent Strauss a congratulatory 'Happy Birthday' telegram, celebrating his 80th birthday.

2001

His most famous movement "Also Sprach Zarathustra" is about 40 minutes long; the portion used in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) was the beginning of the piece, which is known as "Sunrise" or "Dawn".

2014

Pictured on an Austrian 62c commemorative postage stamp, issued 11 June 2014, the 150th anniversary of his birth.