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name: "Richard Strauss"
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born: "11 June 1864"
died: "8 September 1949"
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# Richard Strauss

Composer. Born 11 June 1864 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Died 8 September 1949.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 11 June 1864, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
- **Died:** 8 September 1949
- **Also known as:** Р. Штраус, Рихард Штраус
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Strauss, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13894, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006309/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1116795

## Biography

Richard Strauss (1864–1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic and early modern periods. He was born in Munich and worked as a conductor in Germany and Austria.

His compositions include operas such as *Salome* and *Der Rosenkavalier*, the *Four Last Songs*, and tone poems including *Also sprach Zarathustra*, *Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks* and *An Alpine Symphony*. His music features in the 2002 film *The Hours*.

*Sources: letterboxd.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Hours* (2002), Fi1m 72, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hours.md)

## Complete filmography (94)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Richard Strauss: The Woman without a Shadow  @ Aix-en-Provence Festival 2026* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *Béjart, 3 regards 2025* (2026), Music
- *The Metropolitan Opera: Arabella* (2025), Music
- *Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier @ Zurich Opera House* (2025), Music
- *"The Silent Woman" by Richard Strauss @ Berlin State Opera* (2025), Music
- *SALOME* (2025), Music
- *The Metropolitan Opera: Salome* (2025), Writer, Music
- *Salome - Opera Ballet Vlaanderen* (2025), Music
- *Richard Strauss im Zwielicht* (2025), Actor
- *Famous Orchestras - The world's finest orchestras  : The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Salome (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, 2025)* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Mikko Franck With Jean-Yves Thibaudet* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Asmik Grigorian @ Salzburg Festival 2024* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *The Metropolitan Opera: Der Rosenkavalier* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *Arabella* (2023), Writer
- *Daphne - Berlin Staatsoper* (2023), Music
- *Mikko Franck with Marie-Nicole Lemieux* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *Philharmonix "Rock me Amadeus"* (2022), as Compositor
- *Salomé (Opéra de Paris)* (2022), Music
- *The Silent Woman - Fisher Center at Bard* (2022), Music
- *The Metropolitan Opera: Ariadne auf Naxos* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Capriccio - Semperoper* (2021), Original Music Composer, Writer
- *Der Rosenkavalier - Bayerische Staatsoper* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *Elektra - Wiener Staatsoper* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Elektra* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Der Rosenkavalier - Staatsoper Berlin* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Elektra - Wiener Staatsoper* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Salome - Wiener Staatsoper* (2020), Original Music Composer, Writer
- *Strauss: Salome* (2018), Music
- *Capriccio - Wiener Staatsoper* (2018), Original Music Composer, Writer
- *Ariane à Naxos* (2018), as Opera
- *The Opera House* (2017), Music
- *Der Rosenkavalier* (2017), Music
- *Strauss: Elektra* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Der Rosenkavalier* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *This is Opera* (2015), series, Original Music Composer
- *Strauss: Elektra* (2015), Music
- *Ariadne auf Naxos - Wiener Staatsoper* (2014), Music
- *Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *Arabella* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *Elektra* (2013), Music
- *Capriccio - Wiener Staatsoper* (2013), as Compositor
- *Pappano e l'Accademia di Santa Cecilia: Puccini-Strauss-Rachmaninoff* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Ariadne auf Naxos* (2012), Music
- *Richard Strauss -  Ariadne Auf Naxos* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *Die Frau ohne Schatten* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *The Metropolitan Opera: Capriccio* (2011), Writer
- *Strauss R: Elektra* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *Elektra* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *The Met — Der Rosenkavalier* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *Strauss R: Der Rosenkavalier* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Strauss: Salome* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Karajan: Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklarung / Metamorphosen* (2008), as Compositor
- *Karajan: Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie / Also Sprach Zarathustra* (2008), as Compositor
- *Karajan: Richard Strauss: Don Quixote / Ein Heldenleben* (2008), as Composer
- *Royal Opera House: Salomé* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Der Rosenkavalier - Semperoper* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Arabella* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Rostropovich Life & Art* (2007), Music
- *A View from Space With Heavenly Music* (2006), Music
- *Elektra* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *Fruit Stairs* (2005), Music
- *Der Rosenkavalier* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *The Metropolitan Opera: Ariadne auf Naxos* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *The Hours* (2002), Music — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hours.md)
- *Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier* (1998), Music
- *Salome* (1997), Original Music Composer
- *Arabella* (1994), Music
- *Der Rosenkavalier* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *Elektra* (1994), Original Music Composer
- *Die Frau ohne Schatten* (1994), Music
- *Salomé* (1992), Original Music Composer
- *Die Frau ohne Schatten* (1992), Original Music Composer
- *Elektra* (1989), Original Music Composer
- *The Power of Speech* (1988), Music
- *Salome* (1988), Writer
- *Ariadne auf Naxos - Metropolitan Opera* (1988), Original Music Composer
- *Dom Juan* (1985), Music
- *Der Rosenkavalier* (1985), Original Music Composer
- *Der Rosenkavalier* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *Karajan: Strauss: Death and Transfiguration & Metamorphosen* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *Intermezzo - Glyndebourne* (1983), Music
- *Elektra* (1981), Music
- *Elektra* (1980), Music, Writer
- *Strauss: Elektra* (1980), Music
- *Der Rosenkavalier* (1979), Original Music Composer
- *Salome* (1974), Original Music Composer
- *Dynamite Chicken* (1971), Original Music Composer
- *The Paradise Garden* (1970), Music
- *Dance of the Seven Veils* (1970), Music
- *Eros, O Basileus* (1967), Music
- *Ariadne auf Naxos* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *White Nights* (1960), Music
- *Elektra*, Music

## Gallery

- ![Richard Strauss](https://film.one/media/person/1248817/gallery-e519e60f2446.jpg) Richard Strauss — Franz Leximeliaman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Strauss3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Invito ad Aldo Samaritani e signora ad assistere alla rappresentazione di un'opera di Richard Strauss, in occasione della visita ufficiale del presidente della  (2020)](https://film.one/media/person/1248817/gallery-b44c5bda5bbc.png) Invito ad Aldo Samaritani e signora ad assistere alla rappresentazione di un'opera di Richard Strauss, in occasione della visita ufficiale del presidente della  (2020) — Fausta Samaritani, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Aldo_Samaritani-invito_Opera_di_Roma-Giovanni_Leone-Gustav_Heinemann-23_marzo_1973.png/1280px-Aldo_Samaritani-invito_Opera_di_Roma-Giovanni_Leone-Gustav_Heinemann-23_marzo_1973.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![George Georgescu with Richard Strauss, Bucharest, 1921 (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/1248817/gallery-c9f85b491948.jpg) George Georgescu with Richard Strauss, Bucharest, 1921 (2025) — Ioana Georgescu-Răileanu (IGeorgescuR), OanaMihaelaC, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/CODE465-1921-GG-cu-Richard-Strauss-Bucuresti.jpg/1280px-CODE465-1921-GG-cu-Richard-Strauss-Bucuresti.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Caption text says "THE COMPOSER OF SALOME, Dr. Richard Strauss, drops in to inspect the industrial and technical exhibition in Munich. Always a more or less sto](https://film.one/media/person/1248817/gallery-5f290576fabb.jpg) Caption text says "THE COMPOSER OF SALOME, Dr. Richard Strauss, drops in to inspect the industrial and technical exhibition in Munich. Always a more or less sto — Keystone View Company, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Dr._Richard_Strauss_in_Munich%2C_1925_photo_by_Keystone_View.jpg/1280px-Dr._Richard_Strauss_in_Munich%2C_1925_photo_by_Keystone_View.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Richard Strauss-Woche. München 1910, 23–28 Juni. Poster by Ludwig Hohlwein for a week-long festival of music by Richard Strauss, showing a woman (Salome?) holdi](https://film.one/media/person/1248817/gallery-a4b17141f210.jpg) Richard Strauss-Woche. München 1910, 23–28 Juni. Poster by Ludwig Hohlwein for a week-long festival of music by Richard Strauss, showing a woman (Salome?) holdi — Ludwig Hohlwein, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Flickr_-_%E2%80%A6trialsanderrors_-_Richard_Strauss-Woche%2C_festival_poster%2C_1910.jpg/1280px-Flickr_-_%E2%80%A6trialsanderrors_-_Richard_Strauss-Woche%2C_festival_poster%2C_1910.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ibach Art-Case piano from a sketch of Prof. Emanuel von Seidl for composer Richard Strauss. The pianofactory Ibach made two of this grand pianos, of witch Richa (2021)](https://film.one/media/person/1248817/gallery-1992a4350640.jpg) Ibach Art-Case piano from a sketch of Prof. Emanuel von Seidl for composer Richard Strauss. The pianofactory Ibach made two of this grand pianos, of witch Richa (2021) — Kroetenbein, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Ibach_Fl%C3%BCgel_f%C3%BCr_Richard_Strauss._Entwurf_Prof._Emanuel_von_Seidl.jpg/1280px-Ibach_Fl%C3%BCgel_f%C3%BCr_Richard_Strauss._Entwurf_Prof._Emanuel_von_Seidl.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 5 won

- German Olympic Decoration 1st Class 1936: German Olympic Decoration 1st Class (won)
- Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal 1936: Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal (won)
- Adlerschild des Deutschen Reiches 1934: Adlerschild des Deutschen Reiches (won)
- honorary citizen of Vienna 1924: honorary citizen of Vienna (won)
- Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art 1910: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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