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106-727: American record label In April 2007, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association launched CSO Resound , its in-house record label. All recordings have been made live in concert in Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center , and a complete list of releases, chronological by recording date, is below. Dmitri Shostakovich 's Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 —Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Myung-Whun Chung , conductor. Recorded on September 21, 22, 23, and 26, 2006 (CSOR 901 803) [REDACTED] Mahler's Third Symphony

212-614: A denazification tribunal in Munich. That same month he orchestrated Ruhe, meine Seele! , a song that he had originally composed in 1894. In December 1948, Strauss was hospitalized for several weeks after undergoing bladder surgery. His health rapidly deteriorated after that, and he conducted his last performance, the end of Act 2 of Der Rosenkavalier at the Prinzregententheater in Munich, during celebrations of his 85th birthday on 10 June 1949. On 15 August, he suffered

318-619: A celebrity conductor, and from 1919 to 1924 he was principal conductor of the Vienna State Opera . In 1920 he co-founded the Salzburg Festival with Max Reinhardt and the set designer Alfred Rolle. In 1924 Strauss's opera Intermezzo premiered at the Dresden Semperoper with both the music and libretto by Strauss. For this opera, Strauss wanted to move away from post-Wagnerian metaphysics which had been

424-501: A concert of lieder with his wife. During this trip he was working intensively on composing his third opera, Salome , based on Oscar Wilde 's 1891 play Salome . The work, which premiered in Dresden in 1905, became Strauss's greatest triumph in his career up to that point, and opera houses all over the world quickly began programing the opera. After Salome , Strauss had a string of critically successful operas which he created with

530-719: A concert pianist, performing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 , for which he composed his own cadenzas . In December 1885, Bülow unexpectedly resigned from his post, and Strauss was left to lead the Meiningen Court Orchestra as interim principal conductor for the remainder of the artistic season through April 1886. He notably helped prepare the orchestra for the world premiere performance of Johannes Brahms 's Symphony No. 4 , which Brahms himself conducted. He also conducted his Symphony No. 2 for Brahms, who advised Strauss: "Your symphony contains too much playing about with themes. This piling up of many themes based on

636-602: A conservative harmonic style, many of which are lost: two piano trios (1877 and 1878), a string quartet (1881), a piano sonata (1882), a cello sonata (1883), a piano quartet (1885), a violin sonata (1888), as well as a serenade (1882) and a longer suite (1884), both scored for double wind quintet plus two additional horns and contrabassoon. After 1890, Strauss composed very infrequently for chamber groups, his energies being almost completely absorbed with large-scale orchestral works and operas. Four of his chamber pieces are actually arrangements of portions of his operas, including

742-471: A crucial influence on his son's developing taste, not least in Strauss's abiding love for the horn. His Horn Concerto No. 1 , is representative of this period and is a staple of the modern horn repertoire. In 1874, Strauss heard his first Wagner operas, Lohengrin and Tannhäuser . In 1878 he attended performances of Die Walküre and Siegfried in Munich, and in 1879 he attended performances of

848-1177: A double dose of Berlioz" . CSO Sounds & Stories . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 17 January 2018 . ^ "Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Live" . CSO Sounds & Stories . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 17 January 2018 . ^ "Verdi: Otello" . CSO Sounds & Stories . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 17 January 2018 . ^ "Bates and Clyne reflect on Alternative Energy and Night Ferry" . CSO Sounds & Stories . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 17 January 2018 . ^ "Schoenberg: Kol Nidre, Shostakovich: Michelangelo Suite" . CSO Sounds & Stories . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 17 January 2018 . ^ "Liner notes for Prokofiev: Suite from Romeo and Juliet" . CSO Sounds & Stories . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 17 January 2018 . ^ "Mason Bates: Anthology of Fantastic Zoology" . CSO Sounds & Stories . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 17 January 2018 . ^ "Out June 16 on CSO Resound: Muti and

954-600: A heart attack and he quietly died of kidney failure in his sleep shortly after 2 PM on 8 September 1949, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , West Germany . From his death-bed, typical of his enduring sense of humour, he commented to his daughter-in-law Alice, "dying is just as I composed it in Tod und Verklärung ". Georg Solti , who had arranged Strauss's 85th birthday celebration, also directed an orchestra during Strauss's burial. The conductor later described how, during

1060-552: A new kind of virtuosity in its bravura orchestral manner. Strauss went on to write a series of increasingly ambitious tone poems: Death and Transfiguration (1889), Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks (1895), Also sprach Zarathustra (1896), Don Quixote (1897), Ein Heldenleben (1898), Symphonia Domestica (1903) and An Alpine Symphony (1911–1915). One commentator has observed of these works that "no orchestra could exist without his tone poems, written to celebrate

1166-604: A period. Goebbels wrote in his diary: Unfortunately we still need him, but one day we shall have our own music and then we shall have no further need of this decadent neurotic. Nevertheless, because of Strauss's international eminence, in November 1933 he was appointed to the post of president of the newly founded Reichsmusikkammer , the Reich Music Chamber. Strauss, who had lived through numerous political regimes and had no interest in politics, decided to accept

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1272-500: A piano reduction of the orchestral part himself, with his teacher Benno Walter as soloist. The same year he entered Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , where he studied philosophy and art history, but not music. He left a year later to go to Berlin, where he studied briefly before securing a post with the Meiningen Court Orchestra as assistant conductor to Hans von Bülow , who had been enormously impressed by

1378-486: A post he held until his death in 1942. The orchestra was renamed the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1913. Subsequent music directors have included Désiré Defauw , Artur Rodziński , Rafael Kubelík , Fritz Reiner , Jean Martinon , Georg Solti , and Daniel Barenboim . Reiner famously lead the orchestra, including in a series of television appearances, the first in its history. He also planned but

1484-746: A series of concerts with the Chicago Symphony that were recorded for the European firm Unitel and were broadcast in the 1970s on PBS . They have subsequently been reissued by Decca Video on DVD. Frederick Stock founded the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the first training orchestra in the United States affiliated with a major symphony orchestra, in 1919. Its goal is to recruit pre-professional musicians and train them as high-level orchestra players. Many alumni have gone on to play for

1590-490: A third clarinet in C, bassett horn, bass clarinet, and contrabassoon. Strauss wrote two early symphonies: Symphony No. 1 (1880) and Symphony No. 2 (1884). However, Strauss's style began to truly develop and change when, in 1885, he met Alexander Ritter , a noted composer and violinist, and the husband of one of Richard Wagner's nieces. It was Ritter who persuaded Strauss to abandon the conservative style of his youth and begin writing tone poems . He also introduced Strauss to

1696-517: A triad, which differ from one another only in rhythm, has no value." Brahms' music, like Wagner's, also left a tremendous impression upon Strauss, and he often referred to this time of his life as his 'Brahmsschwärmerei' ('Brahms adoration') during which several his compositions clearly show Brahms' influence, including the Piano Quartet in C minor , Op. 13 (1883–84), Wandrers Sturmlied (1884) and Burleske (1885–86)." In 1885 Strauss met

1802-639: A year before his death, he was cleared of any wrongdoing by a denazification tribunal in Munich. Strauss was born on 11 June 1864 in Munich , the son of Josephine (née Pschorr) and Franz Strauss , who was the principal horn player at the Court Opera in Munich and a professor at the Königliche Musikschule . His mother was the daughter of Georg Pschorr, a financially prosperous brewer from Munich . Strauss began his musical studies at

1908-598: Is different from Wikidata Chicago Symphony Orchestra In 1890, Charles Norman Fay, a Chicago businessman, invited Theodore Thomas to establish an orchestra in Chicago. Under the name "Chicago Orchestra", the orchestra played its first concert October 16, 1891 at the Auditorium Theater . It is one of the oldest orchestras in the United States, along with the New York Philharmonic ,

2014-760: The Bavarian State Opera where he worked as third conductor from 1886 to 1889. He then served as principal conductor of the Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar from 1889 to 1894. In 1894 he made his conducting debut at the Bayreuth Festival , conducting Wagner's Tannhäuser with his wife, soprano Pauline de Ahna , singing Elisabeth. He then returned to the Bavarian State Opera, this time as principal conductor, from 1894 to 1898, after which he

2120-553: The Bayreuth Festival to hear his father perform in the world premiere of Wagner's Parsifal ; after which surviving letters to his father and to Thuille detail his seemingly negative impression of Wagner and his music. In later life, Strauss said that he deeply regretted the conservative hostility to Wagner's progressive works. In early 1882, in Vienna, Strauss gave the first performance of his Violin Concerto in D minor , playing

2226-577: The Berlin Philharmonic in 1894–1895. In 1897, the Strausses' only child, their son Franz, was born. In 1906, Strauss purchased a block of land at Garmisch-Partenkirchen and had a villa ( Strauss-Villa  [ de ] ) built there with the down payments from the publisher Adolph Fürstner for his opera Salome , residing there until his death. Strauss left the Bavarian State Opera in 1898 when he became principal conductor of

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2332-646: The Berliner Tonkünstlerverein . He also served as editor of the book series Die Musik . He used all of these posts to champion contemporary German composers like Mahler . His own compositions were becoming increasingly popular, and the first major orchestra to perform an entire concert of only his music was the Vienna Philharmonic in 1901. In 1903 Strauss Festivals dedicated to his music were established in London and Heidelberg. At

2438-794: The Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra . Orchestra Hall , now a component of the Symphony Center complex, was designed by Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham and completed in 1904. Maestro Thomas served as music director for thirteen years until his death shortly after Orchestra Hall was dedicated on December 14, 1904. The orchestra was renamed "Theodore Thomas Orchestra" in 1905, and today, Orchestra Hall still has "Theodore Thomas Orchestra Hall" inscribed in its façade. In 1905, Frederick Stock became music director,

2544-790: The Chicago Symphony Chorus have earned sixty-five Grammy Awards from the Recording Academy . These include several Classical Album of the Year awards, awards in Best Classical Performance in vocal soloist, choral, instrumental, engineering and orchestral categories. On May 1, 1916, Frederick Stock and the orchestra recorded the Wedding March from Felix Mendelssohn 's music to A Midsummer Night's Dream for Columbia Records . Stock and

2650-571: The Daphne-Etude for solo violin and the String Sextet, which is the overture to his final opera Capriccio . His last independent chamber work, an Allegretto in E major for violin and piano, dates from 1948. He also composed two large-scale works for wind ensemble during this period: Sonatina No. 1 "From an Invalid's Workshop" (1943) and Sonatina No. 2 "Happy Workshop" (1946)—both scored for double wind quintet plus two additional horns,

2756-490: The Four Last Songs , which deal with the subject of dying. The last one, "Im Abendrot" (At Sunset), ends with the line "Is this perhaps death?" The question is not answered in words, but instead Strauss quotes the "transfiguration theme" from his earlier tone poem Death and Transfiguration — meant to symbolize the transfiguration and fulfilment of the soul after death. In June 1948, he was cleared of any wrong-doing by

2862-526: The Gauleiter of Vienna. However, Strauss was unable to protect his Jewish relatives completely; in early 1944, while Strauss was away, Alice and her son Franz were abducted by the Gestapo and imprisoned for two nights. Strauss's personal intervention at this point saved them, and he was able to take them back to Garmisch, where the two remained under house arrest until the end of the war. Strauss completed

2968-745: The Great Depression . The year of Ravinia Park's re-opening, the CSO helped to inaugurate the first season of the Ravinia Festival on July 3, 1936, and has been in residence at the Festival every summer since. The one exception to this is during the COVID-19 pandemic , when the orchestra did not perform any concerts due to Ravinia announcing that it had cancelled all concerts for the 2020 season. Many conductors have made their debut with

3074-706: The Recording Academy . Riccardo Muti , former music director, has won two Grammy Awards, both with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, for the recording of Verdi's Messa da Requiem on the CSO Resound label. Duain Wolfe , chorus director, has won two Grammy Awards for his collaboration with the Chorus, also for Verdi's Messa da Requiem on the CSO Resound label. Bernard Haitink , former principal conductor, has won two Grammy Awards, including one with

3180-678: The Reichsmusikkammer and principal conductor of the Bayreuth Festival. The latter role he accepted after conductor Arturo Toscanini had resigned from the position in protest against the Nazi Party . These positions have led some to criticize Strauss for his seeming collaboration with the Nazis. However, Strauss's daughter-in-law, Alice Grab Strauss [née von Hermannswörth], was Jewish and much of his apparent acquiescence to

3286-685: The Staatskapelle Berlin at the Berlin State Opera in the fall of 1898; a position he remained in for 15 years. By this time in his career, he was in constant demand as a guest conductor internationally and enjoyed celebrity status as a conductor; particularly in the works of Wagner , Mozart , and Liszt in addition to his own compositions. He became president of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein in 1901, and that same year became leader of

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3392-711: The Theresienstadt concentration camp to argue, albeit unsuccessfully, for the release of Alice's grandmother, Paula Neumann. In the end, Neumann and 25 other relatives were murdered in the camps. While Alice's mother, Marie von Grab, was safe in Lucerne, Switzerland, Strauss also wrote several letters to the SS pleading for the release of her children who were also held in camps; his letters were ignored. In 1942, Strauss moved with his family back to Vienna, where Alice and her children could be protected by Baldur von Schirach ,

3498-504: The Bavarian State Opera was not a happy one. With the death of Ludwig II of Bavaria in June 1886, the opera house was not as well financially supported by his successor Otto of Bavaria which meant that much of the more ambitious and expensive repertoire that he wanted to stage, such as Wagner's operas, were unfeasible. The opera assignments he was given, works by Boieldieu, Auber and Donizetti, bored him, and to make matters worse Hermann Levi,

3604-663: The Bayreuth Festival, conducting Wagner's Tannhäuser with Pauline singing Elisabeth. Just prior to their marriage the following September, Strauss left his post in Weimar when he was appointed Kapellmeister, or first conductor, of the Bavarian State Opera where he became responsible for the operas of Wagner. While working in Munich for the next four years he had his largest creative period of tone poem composition, producing Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks (1895), Also sprach Zarathustra (1896), Don Quixote (1897), and Ein Heldenleben (1898). He also served as principal conductor of

3710-709: The CSO in Bruckner's Ninth" . CSO Sounds & Stories . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 17 January 2018 . ^ "Available now on CSO Resound: 'Riccardo Muti Conducts Italian Masterworks' " . CSO Sounds & Stories . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 9 January 2020 . ^ "CSO Resound release of Shostakovich's 'Babi Yar' available Jan. 17" . CSO Sounds & Stories . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 9 January 2020 . ^ "Mascagni's 'Cavalleria rusticana,' on CSO Resound now available for pre-order | Chicago Symphony Orchestra" . Experience

3816-782: The CSO made numerous recordings for Columbia and the Victor Talking Machine Company / RCA Victor . The Chicago Symphony's first electrical recordings were made for Victor in December 1925, including a performance of Karl Goldmark 's In Springtime overture. These early electrical recordings were made in Victor's Chicago studios; within a couple of years Victor began recording the CSO in Orchestra Hall. Stock continued recording for Columbia and RCA Victor until his death in 1942. In 1951, Rafael Kubelík made

3922-466: The CSO or other major orchestras. It is currently the only training orchestra sponsored by a major orchestra in North America. The Civic Orchestra performs half a dozen orchestral concerts and a chamber music series annually in Symphony Center and in other venues throughout the Chicago area free of charge to the public. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra was voted the best orchestra in

4028-865: The CSO, and returned for a guest-conducting appearance in February 2023. In April 2024, the CSO announced the appointment of Mäkelä as its next music director, effective with the 2027–2028 season, with an initial contract of five years. The orchestra has also hosted many distinguished guest conductors, including Thomas Beecham , Leonard Bernstein , Aaron Copland , Edward Elgar , Morton Gould , Paul Hindemith , Erich Kunzel , Erich Leinsdorf , Charles Munch , Eugene Ormandy , André Previn , Sergei Prokofiev , Sergei Rachmaninoff , Maurice Ravel , Arnold Schoenberg , Leonard Slatkin , Leopold Stokowski , James Levine , Richard Strauss , George Szell , Klaus Tennstedt , Michael Tilson Thomas , Bruno Walter , and John Williams . Many of these guests have also recorded with

4134-2994: The Chicago Symphony Chorus (Duain Wolfe, director). Recorded on September 21, 22, and 25, 2018 (CSOR 901 1901) 2020 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical . Pietro Mascagni 's Cavalleria Rusticana —Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor; Anita Rachvelishvili , mezzo-soprano (Santuzza); Piero Pretti, tenor (Turiddu); Luca Salsi , baritone (Alfio); Ronnita Miller, mezzo-soprano (Lucia); Sasha Cooke , mezzo-soprano (Lola); Chicago Symphony Chorus (Duain Wolfe, director). Recorded on February 6, 7, and 8, 2020 (CSOR 901 2201) Contemporary American Composers ( Jessie Montgomery 's Hymn for Everyone , Max Raimi's Three Lisel Mueller Settings , and Philip Glass 's Symphony No. 11 )—Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor; Elizabeth DeShong, mezzo-soprano. Recorded on March 22, 23, and 24, 2018 (Raimi), February 17, 18, and 19, 2022 (Glass), and April 28, 30, and May 3, 2022 (Montgomery) (CSOR 901 2301) 2023 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical . References [ edit ] ^ von Rhein, John. "CSO debuts its own recording label" . Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 17 January 2018 . ^ "Shostakovich 5" . CSO Sounds & Stories . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 17 January 2018 . ^ "Mahler 3" . CSO Sounds & Stories . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 17 January 2018 . ^ "Traditions & Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago" . CSO Sounds & Stories . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 17 January 2018 . ^ "Bruckner 7" . CSO Sounds & Stories . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 17 January 2018 . ^ "Mahler 6" . CSO Sounds & Stories . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 17 January 2018 . ^ "Daphnis and Chloe" . CSO Sounds & Stories . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 17 January 2018 . ^ "Mahler 1" . CSO Sounds & Stories . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 17 January 2018 . ^ "Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4" . CSO Sounds & Stories . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 17 January 2018 . ^ "Mahler 2" . CSO Sounds & Stories . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 17 January 2018 . ^ "Ein Heldenleben" . CSO Sounds & Stories . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 17 January 2018 . ^ "Verdi: Messa da Requiem" . CSO Sounds & Stories . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 17 January 2018 . ^ "Pulcinella" . CSO Sounds & Stories . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 17 January 2018 . ^ "For Muti's fifth, CSO Resound offers

4240-682: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 23 September 2022 . ^ "Contemporary American Composers on CSO Resound | Chicago Symphony Orchestra" . Experience the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association . Retrieved 15 June 2023 . Authority control databases [REDACTED] MusicBrainz label Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CSO_Resound&oldid=1250246670 " Categories : American record labels Record labels established in 2007 Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

4346-455: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia, and several have gone on to become music director for the festival, including Seiji Ozawa (1964–68), James Levine (1973–93), and Christoph Eschenbach (1995–2003). James Conlon held the title from 2005 until 2015. The Ravinia Festival created an honorific title for James Levine, "Conductor Laureate", and signed him to a five-year renewable contract beginning in 2018. On December 4, 2017, after Levine

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4452-492: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra for the recording of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony on the CSO Resound label. Pierre Boulez , former conductor emeritus and principal guest conductor, won twenty-six Grammy Awards including eight with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Boulez is the sixth all-time Grammy winner, behind Beyoncé (thirty-two), Sir Georg Solti (thirty-one), Quincy Jones (twenty-eight), Alison Krauss , and Chick Corea (twenty-seven each). Boulez also received

4558-754: The Montreux Palace hotel in Montreux. There they met the Swiss music critic Willy Schuh , who became Strauss's biographer. Short of money, in 1947 Strauss embarked on his last international tour, a three-week trip to London, in which he conducted several of his tone poems and excerpts of his operas, and was present during a complete staging of Elektra by the BBC . The trip was a critical success and provided him and his wife with some much-needed money. From May to September 1948, just before his death, Strauss composed

4664-597: The Nazi Party was done to save her life and the lives of her children (his Jewish grandchildren). He was also apolitical, and took the Reichsmusikkammer post to advance copyright protections for composers, attempting as well to preserve performances of works by banned composers such as Mahler and Felix Mendelssohn . Further, Strauss insisted on using a Jewish librettist, Stefan Zweig , for his opera Die schweigsame Frau which ultimately led to his firing from

4770-484: The Nazi regime. Strauss attempted to ignore Nazi bans on performances of works by Debussy, Mahler, and Mendelssohn. He also continued to work on a comic opera, Die schweigsame Frau , with his Jewish friend and librettist Stefan Zweig . When the opera was premiered in Dresden in 1935, Strauss insisted that Zweig's name appear on the theatrical billing, much to the ire of the Nazi regime. Hitler and Goebbels avoided attending

4876-559: The Orchestra's Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant Yo-Yo Ma (Grammy winner); and recordings of Verdi's Requiem (Grammy winner) and Otello , under the direction of Muti. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus have recorded the music for two movies: Fantasia 2000 conducted by James Levine and Lincoln conducted by John Williams. Selections from the Orchestra and Chorus's recording of Johann Sebastian Bach 's St Matthew Passion , conducted by Sir Georg Solti, were used in

4982-517: The Reichsmusikkammer and Bayreuth. His opera Friedenstag , which premiered just before the outbreak of World War II , was a thinly veiled criticism of the Nazi Party that attempted to persuade Germans to abandon violence for peace. Thanks to his influence, his daughter-in-law was placed under protected house arrest during the war, but despite extensive efforts he was unable to save dozens of his in-laws from being killed in Nazi concentration camps . In 1948,

5088-4948: The Score: Is Music Dangerous? (DVD)—Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor; Gerard McBurney , narrator; Nicholas Rudall , actor. Recorded on May 8, 9, 10, 11, and 13, 2008 (CSOR 901 814). 2008 Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (Resurrection) —Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor; Miah Persson , soprano; Christianne Stotijn, mezzo-soprano; Chicago Symphony Chorus (Duain Wolfe, director). Recorded on November 20, 21, 22, and 25, 2008 (CSOR 901 914) Richard Strauss 's Ein Heldenleben and Anton Webern 's Im Sommerwind —Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor. Recorded on December 4, 5, and 6, 2008 (Strauss), and April 23, 24, 25, and 28, 2009 (Webern) (CSOR 901 1002) Giuseppe Verdi 's Messa da Requiem —Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Riccardo Muti , conductor; Barbara Frittoli , soprano; Olga Borodina , mezzo-soprano; Mario Zeffiri, tenor; Ildar Abdrazakov , bass; Chicago Symphony Chorus (Duain Wolfe, director). Recorded on January 15, 16, and 17, 2009 (CSOR 901 1006). 2010 Grammy Awards for Best Classical Album and Best Choral Performance Igor Stravinsky 's Pulcinella , Symphony in Three Movements , and Four Studies —Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Pierre Boulez , conductor; Roxana Constatinescu, mezzo-soprano; Nicholas Phan , tenor; Kyle Ketelsen , bass-baritone. Recorded on February 26, 27, 28, and March 3, 2009 (Symphony in Three Movements and Four Studies), and March 5, 6, and 7, 2009 ( Pulcinella ) (CSOR 901 918) Hector Berlioz 's Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 and Lélio, Op. 14b —Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor; Gérard Depardieu , narrator; Mario Zeffiri, tenor; Kyle Ketelsen, bass-baritone; Chicago Symphony Chorus (Duain Wolfe, director). Recorded on September 23, 24, 25, and 28, 2010 (CSOR 901 1501) Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Live (works by Bach , Gabrieli , Grainger , Prokofiev, Revueltas , and Walton )—Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass; Dale Clevenger , Jay Friedman , Michael Mulcahy, and Mark Ridenour, conductors. Recorded on December 16, 17, and 18, 2010 (CSOR 901 1101) Giuseppe Verdi's Otello —Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor; Aleksandrs Antonenko , tenor (Otello); Krassimira Stoyanova , soprano (Desdemona); Carlo Guelfi, baritone (Iago); Barbara di Castri, mezzo-soprano (Emilia); Juan Francisco Gatell , tenor (Cassio); Michael Spyres , tenor (Roderigo); Paolo Battaglia, bass (Montano); Eric Owens , bass-baritone (Lodovico); David Govertsen, bass (A herald); Chicago Symphony Chorus (Duain Wolfe, director); Chicago Children’s Choir (Josephine Lee, director). Recorded on April 7, 9, and 12, 2011 (CSOR 901 1301) Riccardo Muti Conducts Mason Bates and Anna Clyne (Anna Clyne's Night Ferry and Mason Bates's Alternative Energy )—Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor; Recorded on February 2, 3, 4, and 7, 2012 (Bates), and February 9, 10, and 11, 2012 (Clyne) (CSOR 901 1401) Arnold Schoenberg 's Kol Nidre, Op. 39 and Dmitri Shostakovich's Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti —Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor; Ildar Abdrazakov, bass; Alberto Mizrahi, narrator; Chicago Symphony Chorus (Duain Wolfe, director). Recorded on March 15, 16, and 17, 2012 (Schoenberg), and June 14, 16, and 19, 2012 (Shostakovich) (CSOR 901 1602) Sergei Prokofiev's Suite from Romeo and Juliet —Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor. Recorded on October 3, 5, 8, and 11, 2013 (CSOR 901 1402) Mason Bates's Anthology of Fantastic Zoology —Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor. Recorded on June 18, 19, and 20, 2015 (CSOR 901 1601) Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 9 in D Minor —Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor. Recorded on June 23, 25, and 26, 2016 (CSOR 901 1701) Riccardo Muti Conducts Italian Masterworks ( Giuseppe Verdi 's Overture and Gli arredi festivi from Nabucco , Patria oppressa! from Macbeth , and Overture to I vespri siciliani ; Giacomo Puccini 's Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut ; Pietro Mascagni 's Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana ; and Arrigo Boito 's Prologue to Mefistofele )—Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor; Riccardo Zanellato, bass; Chicago Symphony Chorus (Duain Wolfe, director); Chicago Children's Choir (Josephine Lee, director). Recorded on June 22, 23, 24, and 25, 2017 (CSOR 901 1801) Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13 in B-flat Minor, Op. 113 (Babi Yar) —Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, conductor; Alexey Tikhomirov, bass; Men of

5194-408: The Strauss home. The Strauss family was frequently joined in their home for music making, meals, and other activities by the orphaned composer and music theorist Ludwig Thuille who was viewed as an adopted member of the family. Strauss's father taught his son the music of Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert. His father further assisted his son with his musical composition during the 1870s and into

5300-777: The U.S. on the London label and include a highly acclaimed Mahler series, recorded, in part, in the historic Medinah Temple —some installments were recorded in the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois (in Urbana ), as well as in the Sofiensaal in Vienna, Austria. Many of the recordings with Daniel Barenboim were released on Teldec . In 2007, the Chicago Symphony formed its own recording label, CSO Resound . After an agreement

5406-659: The United States and the fifth best orchestra in the world by editors of the British classical music magazine Gramophone in November, 2008. The same was said by a panel of critics polled by the classical music website bachtrack in September, 2015. In 2011, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra was inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame . Recordings by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus have earned sixty-five Grammy Awards from

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5512-474: The Viennese theatre historian. Other well-known works by Strauss include two symphonies, lieder (especially the Four Last Songs ), the Violin Concerto in D minor , the Horn Concerto No. 1 , Horn Concerto No. 2 , his Oboe Concerto and other instrumental works such as Metamorphosen . A prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, Strauss enjoyed quasi-celebrity status as his compositions became standards of orchestral and operatic repertoire. He

5618-447: The academy's 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award . Sir Georg Solti , former music director and music director laureate, won thirty-one Grammy Awards. He received seven awards in addition to his twenty-four awards with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. In addition, Sir Georg Solti and producer John Culshaw received the first NARAS Trustees' Award in 1967 for their "efforts, ingenuity, and artistic contributions" in connection with

5724-439: The age of four, studying piano with August Tombo who was the harpist in the Munich Court Orchestra. Soon after, he began attending the rehearsals of the orchestra, and began getting lessons in music theory and orchestration from the ensemble's assistant conductor. He wrote his first composition at the age of six, and continued to write music almost until his death. In 1872, he started receiving violin instruction from Benno Walter ,

5830-489: The autumn of 1887. Also happily, Strauss met his future wife, soprano Pauline de Ahna , in 1887. De Ahna was then a voice student at the Munich Musikschule (now the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich ), but soon switched to private lessons with Strauss who became her principal teacher. In May 1889 Strauss left his post with the Bavarian State Opera after being appointed Kapellmeister to Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in Weimar, beginning in

5936-424: The autumn of 1889. During the summer of 1889 he served as the assistant conductor of the Bayreuth Festival during which time he befriended Cosima Wagner who became a longterm close friend. Pauline De Ahna went with Strauss to Weimar and he later married her on 10 September 1894. She was famous for being irascible, garrulous, eccentric and outspoken, but to all appearances the marriage was essentially happy, and she

6042-532: The blackest days of World War II, the piece expresses Strauss's mourning of, among other things, the destruction of German culture—including the bombing of every great opera house in the nation. At the end of the war, Strauss wrote in his private diary: The most terrible period of human history is at an end, the twelve year reign of bestiality, ignorance and anti-culture under the greatest criminals, during which Germany's 2000 years of cultural evolution met its doom. In April 1945, American soldiers occupying Germany at

6148-411: The boys or their mother being sent to concentration camps . Frustrated that he could no longer work with Zweig as his librettist, Strauss turned to Joseph Gregor , a Viennese theatre historian, at Gregor's request. The first opera they worked on together was Daphne , but it ultimately became the second of their operas to be premiered. Their first work to be staged was in 1938, when the entire nation

6254-721: The broadcasts once again resumed with a 52-week series. The broadcasts were originally sponsored by BP and air on 98.7 WFMT in Chicago and the WFMT Radio Network. They consist of 39 weeks of recordings of live concerts, as well as highlights from the CSO's vast discography. The CSO appeared in a series of telecasts on WGN-TV , beginning in 1953. The early 1960s saw the videotaped telecast series Music from Chicago , conducted by Fritz Reiner and guest conductors including Arthur Fiedler , George Szell , Pierre Monteux , and Charles Munch . Many of these televised concerts, from 1953 to 1963, have since been released to DVD by Video Artists International . Sir Georg Solti also conducted

6360-541: The composer Alexander Ritter who was a violinist in the Meiningen orchestra and the husband of one of Richard Wagner 's nieces. An avid champion of the ideals of Wagner and Franz Liszt , Ritter had a tremendous impact on the trajectory of Strauss's work as a composer from 1885 onward. Ritter convinced Strauss to abandon his more conservative style of composing and embrace the "music of the future" by modeling his compositional style on Wagner and Liszt. He further influenced Strauss by engaging him in studies and conversations on

6466-418: The composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again", when Strauss had accepted the presidency of the Reichsmusikkammer . Much of Strauss's motivation in his conduct during the Third Reich was, however, to protect his Jewish daughter-in-law Alice and his Jewish grandchildren from persecution. Both of his grandsons were bullied at school, but Strauss used his considerable influence to prevent

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6572-523: The composer – who had grown old, tired, and a little jaded – into focus. The major works of the last years of Strauss's life, written in his late 70s and 80s, include, among others, his Horn Concerto No. 2 , Metamorphosen , his Oboe Concerto , his Duet concertino for clarinet and bassoon , and his Four Last Songs . In June 1945, after finishing Metamorphosen , Strauss completed his Sonatina No 2 in E-flat major (" Fröhliche Werkstatt ") for 16 wind instruments, which he had begun in early 1944; at

6678-407: The composition of Metamorphosen , a work for 23 solo strings, in 1945. The title and inspiration for the work comes from a profoundly self-examining poem by Goethe , which Strauss had considered setting as a choral work. Generally regarded as one of the masterpieces of the string repertoire, Metamorphosen contains Strauss's most sustained outpouring of tragic emotion. Conceived and written during

6784-420: The director of the Munich Court Orchestra and his father's cousin, and at 11 began five years of compositional study with Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer. In 1882 he graduated from the Ludwigsgymnasium and afterwards attended only one year at the University of Munich in 1882–1883. In addition to his formal teachers, Strauss was profoundly influenced musically by his father who made instrumental music-making central to

6890-458: The early 1880s, providing advice, comments, and criticisms. His father also provided support by showcasing his son's compositions in performance with the Wilde Gung'l, an amateur orchestra he conducted from 1875 to 1896. Many of his early symphonic compositions were written for this ensemble. His compositions at this time were indebted to the style of Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn , true to his father's teachings. His father undoubtedly had

6996-402: The end of the score he wrote "To the Manes of the divine Mozart at the end of a life full of thankfulness". Like those of most Germans, Strauss's bank accounts were frozen, and many of his assets seized by American forces. Now elderly and with very few resources left, Strauss and his wife left Germany for Switzerland in October 1945 where they settled in a hotel outside Zurich, and later at

7102-487: The end of the tour with a ticker-tape parade . On May 5, 2008, the CSO announced the appointment of Riccardo Muti as its 10th music director, starting with the 2010–2011 season After extending his stay several times, the CSO confirmed that Muti would conclude his active directorship of the orchestra at end of the 2022–2023 season. In September 2023, the orchestra granted Muti the title of Music Director Emeritus for life. In 2022, Klaus Mäkelä first guest-conducted

7208-454: The end of the war arrived at Strauss's Garmisch estate. As Strauss descended the staircase, he announced to Lieutenant Milton Weiss of the U.S. Army, "I am Richard Strauss, the composer of Rosenkavalier and Salome ." Lt. Weiss, who was also a musician, nodded in recognition. An "Off Limits" sign was subsequently placed on the lawn to protect Strauss. The American oboist John de Lancie , who knew Strauss's orchestral writing for oboe thoroughly,

7314-448: The entire Ring Cycle , Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , and Tristan und Isolde . The influence of Wagner's music on Strauss's style was to be profound, but at first his musically conservative father forbade him to study it. Indeed, in the Strauss household, the music of Richard Wagner was viewed with deep suspicion, and it was not until the age of 16 that Strauss was able to obtain a score of Tristan und Isolde . In 1882 he went to

7420-423: The essays of Wagner and the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer . Strauss went on to conduct one of Ritter's operas, and at Strauss's request Ritter later wrote a poem describing the events depicted in Strauss's tone poem Death and Transfiguration . The new influences from Ritter resulted in what is widely regarded as Strauss's first piece to show his mature personality, the tone poem Don Juan (1888), which displays

7526-634: The event, from 1986 through 2008, the orchestra released tracks from their broadcast archives on double LP/CD collections, as well as two larger sets of broadcasts and rarities (CSO: The First 100 Years, 12 CDs, 1991; CSO in the 20th Century: Collector's Choice, 10 CDs, 2000). The Chicago Symphony Orchestra maintains a summer home at the Ravinia Festival in Ravinia Park, Highland Park, Illinois . The CSO first performed there on November 20, 1905, during Ravinia Park's second year since its opening in 1904, and continued to appear there on and off through August 1931, after which Ravinia Park closed for four years due to

7632-480: The first complete recording of Richard Wagner 's Der Ring des Nibelungen with the Vienna Philharmonic . Solti also received the academy's 1995 Lifetime Achievement Award . Margaret Hillis , founder and longtime director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus , won nine Grammy Awards for her collaborations with the Orchestra and Chorus. Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss ( German: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈʃtʁaʊs] ; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949)

7738-559: The first modern high fidelity recordings with the orchestra, in Orchestra Hall, for Mercury . Like the first electrical recordings, these performances were made with a single microphone. Philips has reissued these performances on compact disc with the original Mercury label and liner notes. In March 1954, Fritz Reiner made the first stereophonic recordings with the CSO, again in Orchestra Hall, for RCA Victor, including performances of two symphonic poems by Richard Strauss : Ein Heldenleben and Also sprach Zarathustra . Reiner and

7844-650: The latter festival his cantata Taillefer was given its world premiere. In 1904 Strauss embarked on his first North American tour, with stops in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, New York City, and Pittsburgh. At Carnegie Hall he conducted the world premiere of his Symphonia Domestica on 21 March 1904 with the Wetzler Symphony Orchestra . He also conducted several other works in collaboration with composer Hermann Hans Wetzler and his orchestra that year at Carnegie Hall, and also performed

7950-454: The librettist and poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal . These operas included Elektra (1909), Der Rosenkavalier (1911), Ariadne auf Naxos (1912, rev. 1916), Die Frau ohne Schatten (1919), Die ägyptische Helena (1928), and Arabella (1933). While all of these works remain part of the opera repertoire, his opera Der Rosenkavalier is generally considered his finest achievement. During this time he continued to work internationally as

8056-405: The movie Casino . The Chicago Symphony first broadcast on the radio in 1925. Though often sporadic, there have been broadcasts ever since. With the 1965–1966 season, Chicago radio station WFMT began regular tape-delayed stereo broadcasts of CSO concerts, running through the 1968–1969 season. They resumed from 1976 through the 2000–2001 season before ceasing due to lack of sponsorship. In 2007,

8162-520: The music of banned composers such as Gustav Mahler and Claude Debussy . In 1933, Strauss wrote in his private notebook: I consider the Streicher –Goebbels Jew-baiting as a disgrace to German honour, as evidence of incompetence—the basest weapon of untalented, lazy mediocrity against a higher intelligence and greater talent. Meanwhile, far from being an admirer of Strauss's work, Joseph Goebbels maintained expedient cordiality with Strauss only for

8268-502: The opera, and it was halted after three performances and subsequently banned by the Third Reich . On 17 June 1935, Strauss wrote a letter to Stefan Zweig, in which he stated: Do you believe I am ever, in any of my actions, guided by the thought that I am 'German'? Do you suppose Mozart was consciously 'Aryan' when he composed? I recognise only two types of people: those who have talent and those who have none. This letter to Zweig

8374-528: The orchestra continued to record for RCA Victor through 1963. These were mostly recorded in RCA Victor's triple-channel "Living Stereo" process. RCA has digitally remastered the recordings and released them on CD and SACD. Jean Martinon also recorded with the CSO for RCA Victor during the 1960s, producing performances that have been reissued on CD. Sir Georg Solti recorded with the CSO primarily for Decca Records . These Solti recordings were issued in

8480-644: The orchestra. Carlos Kleiber made his only symphonic guest appearances in America with the CSO in October 1978 and June 1983. The three principal guest conductors of the orchestra have been Carlo Maria Giulini , Claudio Abbado , and Pierre Boulez . The CSO holds an annual fundraiser, originally known as the Chicago Symphony Marathon, more recently as "Radiothon" and "Symphonython", in conjunction with Chicago radio station WFMT . As part of

8586-456: The outbreak of war in 1939. The two men collaborated on two more operas which proved to be Strauss's last: Die Liebe der Danae (1940) and Capriccio (1942). When his Jewish daughter-in-law Alice was placed under house arrest in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1938, Strauss used his connections in Berlin, including opera-house General Intendant Heinz Tietjen , to secure her safety. He drove to

8692-523: The philosophical framework of Hofmannsthal's libretti, and instead embrace a modern domestic comedy to Hofmannsthal's chagrin. The work proved to be a success. At the outbreak of World War I Strauss was invited to sign the Manifesto of German artists and intellectuals supporting the German role in the conflict. Several colleagues, including Max Reinhardt , signed, but Strauss refused, and his response

8798-621: The position but to remain apolitical, a decision which would eventually become untenable. He wrote to his family, "I made music under the Kaiser , and under Ebert . I'll survive under this one as well." He later wrote in his journal: In November 1933, the minister Goebbels nominated me president of the Reichsmusikkammer without obtaining my prior agreement. I was not consulted. I accepted this honorary office because I hoped that I would be able to do some good and prevent worse misfortunes, if from now onwards German musical life were going to be, as it

8904-424: The premiere of his tone poem Death and Transfiguration in 1890. Both of these works, along with the earlier Burleske , became internationally known and established him as a leading modernist composer. He also had much success as a conductor in Weimar, particularly with the symphonic poems of Liszt and an uncut production of Tristan und Isolde in 1892. In the summer of 1894 Strauss made his conducting debut at

9010-421: The senior conductor at the house, was often ill and Strauss was required to step in at the last minute to conduct performance for operas which he had never rehearsed. This caused problems for him, the singers, and the orchestra. During this time, Strauss did find much more enjoyable conducting work outside Munich in Berlin, Dresden, and Leipzig. In the latter city he met and befriended the composer Gustav Mahler in

9116-690: The singing of the famous trio from Rosenkavalier , "each singer broke down in tears and dropped out of the ensemble, but they recovered themselves and we all ended together". Strauss's wife, Pauline de Ahna, died eight months later on 13 May 1950 at the age of 88. Strauss himself declared in 1947 with characteristic self-deprecation: "I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer." The Canadian pianist Glenn Gould described Strauss in 1962 as "the greatest musical figure who has lived in this century". Some of Strauss's first compositions were solo instrumental and chamber works. These pieces include early compositions for piano solo in

9222-583: The various sites he was seeing along with tonal impressions that went with those descriptions. These he communicated in a letter to his mother, and they ultimately were used as the beginning of his first tone poem, Aus Italien (1886). Shortly after Strauss assumed his opera conducting duties in Munich, Ritter himself moved to the city in September 1886. For the next three years the two men would meet regularly, often joined by Thuille and Anton Seidl , to discuss music, particularly Wagner and Liszt, and discuss poetry, literature, and philosophy. Strauss's tenure at

9328-585: The writings of Arthur Schopenhauer , Wagner, and Friedrich von Hausegger. All of this together gave a new aesthetic anchor to Strauss which first became evident in his embrace of the tone poem genre. After leaving his post in Meiningen in 1886, Strauss spent several weeks traveling throughout Italy before assuming a new post as third conductor at the Bavarian State Opera (then known as the Munich Hofoper). While traveling he wrote down descriptions of

9434-408: The young composer's Serenade (Op. 7) for wind instruments, composed when he was only 16 years of age. Strauss learned the art of conducting by observing Bülow in rehearsal. Bülow was very fond of the young man, and Strauss considered him as his greatest conducting mentor, often crediting him as teaching him "the art of interpretation". Notably, under Bülow's baton he made his first major appearance as

9540-551: Was Salome , which used a libretto by Hedwig Lachmann that was a German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde . This was followed by several critically acclaimed operas with librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal : Elektra , Der Rosenkavalier , Ariadne auf Naxos , Die Frau ohne Schatten , Die ägyptische Helena , and Arabella . His last operas, Daphne , Friedenstag , Die Liebe der Danae and Capriccio used libretti written by Joseph Gregor ,

9646-574: Was 68, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power . Strauss never joined the Nazi Party, and studiously avoided Nazi forms of greeting . For reasons of expediency, however, he was initially drawn into cooperating with the early Nazi regime in the hope that Hitler—an ardent Wagnerian and music lover who had admired Strauss's work since viewing Salome in 1907—would promote German art and culture. Strauss's need to protect his Jewish daughter-in-law and Jewish grandchildren also motivated his behavior, in addition to his determination to preserve and conduct

9752-473: Was a German composer and conductor best known for his tone poems and operas . Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt . Along with Gustav Mahler , he represents the late flowering of German Romanticism , in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style. Strauss's compositional output began in 1870 when he

9858-407: Was a great source of inspiration to him. Throughout his life, from his earliest songs to the final Four Last Songs of 1948, he preferred the soprano voice to all others, and all his operas contain important soprano roles. In Weimar she created the role of Freihild in Strauss's first opera, Guntram , in 1894. The opera was received with mixed reviews in Weimar, but its later production in Munich

9964-535: Was accused of sexual misconduct, the Ravinia Festival severed all ties with Levine, and terminated his five-year contract to lead the Chicago Symphony there. Marin Alsop served as the festival's first artistic curator from 2018 until 2019. She became its chief conductor and curator in 2021. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has amassed an extensive discography. Recordings by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and

10070-410: Was chiefly admired for his interpretations of the works of Liszt, Mozart, and Wagner in addition to his own works. A conducting disciple of Hans von Bülow , Strauss began his conducting career as Bülow's assistant with the Meiningen Court Orchestra in 1883. After Bülow resigned in 1885, Strauss served as that orchestra's primary conductor for five months before being appointed to the conducting staff of

10176-440: Was in the army unit, and asked Strauss to compose an oboe concerto. Initially dismissive of the idea, Strauss completed this late work, his Oboe Concerto , before the end of the year. The metaphor " Indian summer " has been used by journalists, biographers, and music critics, notably Norman Del Mar in 1964, to describe Strauss's late creative upsurge from 1942 to the end of his life. The events of World War II seemed to bring

10282-540: Was intercepted by the Gestapo and sent to Hitler. Strauss was subsequently dismissed from his post as Reichsmusikkammer president in 1935. The 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics nevertheless used Strauss's Olympische Hymne , which he had composed in 1934. Strauss's seeming relationship with the Nazis in the 1930s attracted criticism from some noted musicians, including Toscanini, who in 1933 had said, "To Strauss

10388-441: Was just six years old and lasted until his death nearly eighty years later. His first tone poem to achieve wide acclaim was Don Juan , and this was followed by other lauded works of this kind, including Death and Transfiguration , Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks , Also sprach Zarathustra , Don Quixote , Ein Heldenleben , Symphonia Domestica , and An Alpine Symphony . His first opera to achieve international fame

10494-403: Was met with scorn and was Strauss's first major failure. In spite of the failure of his first opera, Strauss's tenure in Weimar brought about several important successes for his career. His tone poem Don Juan premiered in Weimar on 11 November 1889 to tremendous critical response, and the work quickly brought him international fame and success. This was followed by another lauded achievement,

10600-545: Was preparing for war, they presented Friedenstag ( Peace Day ), a one-act opera set in a besieged fortress during the Thirty Years' War . The work is essentially a hymn to peace and a thinly veiled criticism of the Third Reich. With its contrasts between freedom and enslavement, war and peace, light and dark, this work has a close affinity with Beethoven 's Fidelio . Productions of the opera ceased shortly after

10706-421: Was principal conductor of the Berlin State Opera from 1898 to 1913. From 1919 to 1924 he was principal conductor of the Vienna State Opera , and in 1920 he co-founded the Salzburg Festival . In addition to these posts, Strauss was a frequent guest conductor in opera houses and with orchestras internationally. In 1933 Strauss was appointed to two important positions in the musical life of Nazi Germany : head of

10812-565: Was reached with the Orchestra's musicians, arrangements were made for new recordings to be released digitally at online outlets and on compact disc. The first CSO Resound CD, a recording of Haitink's rendition of Mahler's Third Symphony, was released in the spring of 2007. Releases that followed included Bruckner's Seventh Symphony, Mahler's Sixth Symphony, and Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony (Grammy winner), all conducted by Haitink; Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony led by Myung-Whun Chung ; "Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago" with

10918-499: Was recorded with approval by the French critic Romain Rolland in his diary for October 1914: "Declarations about war and politics are not fitting for an artist, who must give his attention to his creations and his works." In 1924 Strauss's son Franz married Alice von Grab-Hermannswörth, daughter of a Jewish industrialist, in a Roman Catholic ceremony. Franz and Alice had two sons, Richard and Christian. In March 1933, when Strauss

11024-456: Was said, "reorganized" by amateurs and ignorant place-seekers. Strauss privately scorned Goebbels and called him "a pipsqueak". However, in 1933 he dedicated an orchestral song, " Das Bächlein " ("The Little Brook"), to Goebbels, to gain his cooperation in extending German music copyright laws from 30 years to 50 years. Also in 1933, he replaced Arturo Toscanini as director of the Bayreuth Festival after Toscanini had resigned in protest against

11130-1751: Was the first recording issued on CSO Resound in 2007. Gustav Mahler 's Symphony No. 3 in D Minor —Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Bernard Haitink , conductor; Michelle DeYoung , mezzo-soprano; Women of the Chicago Symphony Chorus ( Duain Wolfe , director); Chicago Children’s Choir (Josephine Lee, director). Recorded on October 19, 20, and 21, 2006 (CSOR 901 701) Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago ( Ernest Bloch 's Schelomo , Byambasuren Sharav 's Legend of Herlen, Lou Harrison 's Pipa Concerto, and Sergei Prokofiev 's Scythian Suite )—Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya and Alan Gilbert , conductors; Yo-Yo Ma , cello; Wu Man , pipa; Silk Road Ensemble . Recorded on April 12, 13, and 17, 2007 (Bloch, Sharav, and Harrison), and May 17, 18, 19, and 22, 2007 (Prokofiev) (CSOR 901 801). 2008 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album–Classical Anton Bruckner 's Symphony No. 7 in E Major —Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor. Recorded on May 10, 11, 12, and 15, 2007 (CSOR 901 704) Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 6 in A Minor —Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor. Recorded on October 18, 19, 20, and 23, 2007 (CSOR 901 804) Francis Poulenc 's Gloria and Maurice Ravel 's Daphnis and Chloe —Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor; Jessica Rivera , soprano; Chicago Symphony Chorus (Duain Wolfe, director). Recorded on November 8, 9, and 10, 2007 (CSOR 901 906) Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D Major —Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor. Recorded on May 1, 2, and 3, 2008 (CSOR 901 902) Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 4 in C Minor. Op. 43 and Beyond

11236-410: Was unable to bring to fruition its first tour outside the United States. Later, Solti thought it was essential to raise the orchestra's international profile. He led it in a European tour in 1971, playing in ten countries. It was the first time in its 80-year history that the orchestra had played outside of North America. The orchestra received plaudits from European critics, and was welcomed home at

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