Composer (11-Jun-1864 — 8-Sep-1949)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Mark-Daniel Schmid (editor). The Richard Strauss Companion. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2003. 466pp. Ten essays.

ARTICLES

1. Drifting Back to the Real World
   A Look at Richard Strauss's Legacy After 150 Years
   by Anthony Tommasini. The New York Times, 6-Jun-2014.

AUTHORITIES

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Wikipedia [link]

5. 20th Century Culture: A Biographical Companion (p.734)

6. Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians (p.638)

7. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.677)

8. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1409)

9. Penguin Companion to the Arts in the Twentieth Century (p.364)

10. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.988)

11. The Oxford Dictionary of Music (pp.850-52)

12. Portable Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (pp.233-35)

13. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 8th Edition (pp.986-89)

14. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.469)

15. Concise Biographical Dictionary of Famous Men and Women (p.656)

16. Thames & Hudson Encyclopedia of 20th Century Music (p.174)

17. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.92)

18. Encyclopedia of Concert Music (pp.452-53)

19. Musicians Since 1900 (pp.832-37)

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