Vanguard Recording Society is an American record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York City . It was a primarily classical label at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s, but also has a catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal jazz , folk , and blues musicians. The Bach Guild was a subsidiary label.
119-619: The label was acquired by Concord Bicycle Music in April 2015. The newly founded venture's first record was of J.S. Bach's 21st cantata, Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis , BWV 21 ("I had much grief"), with Jonathan Sternberg conducting the tenor Hugues Cuénod and other soloists, chorus and orchestra. "What speaks for the Solomons' steadfastness in their taste and their task", wrote a Billboard journalist in November 1966, "is that this record
238-614: 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
357-586: A Dutch pension fund. After acquiring two theatrical licensing companies, Tams-Witmark Music Library and Samuel French in 2018, the company formed its own Theatricals division. During 2017, the Concord Music Group, Bicycle Music and Imagem divisions of Concord Bicycle Music were consolidated as Concord Music, and Barros was appointed as chief operating officer . In 2017, a streaming rights deal signed between Universal and Spotify gave Concord access to Spotify's marketing tools. By 2018, in
476-619: 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
595-501: 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
714-719: 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
833-602: 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
952-471: 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
1071-514: A distribution deal with EMI to handle its labels, including Vanguard. After Seymour Solomon's death, Vanguard Classics was sold to Artemis Records , which reactivated the company with new releases by Leon Fleisher and Gil Shaham. When Artemis folded in 2004, the Vanguard Classics catalogue was sold to Sheridan Square Entertainment , which is licensing the Vanguard Classics material. Sheridan Square eventually became IndieBlu , which
1190-531: A documentary about Billie Holiday which premiered at Telluride Film Festival in 2019. The business is in development on several major screen projects based on iconic musicals by Rodgers & Hammerstein : a TV series reimagining of Oklahoma! , which Concord Originals is producing alongside Skydance TV , a remake of The King and I with Temple Hill at Paramount Pictures and a contemporary take on Flower Drum Song with Daniel Dae Kim's 3AD and Janet Yang Productions. Additional announced projects include
1309-625: A featured channel on Sirius XM and an international tour under its name. Concord purchased theatrical licensing companies Tams-Witmark and Samuel French , and combining then with R&H Theatricals, launched its Theatrical division in 2018. Concord Theatricals services both creators and producers of musicals and plays with theatrical licensing, script publishing and cast recordings. It also develops, licenses, produces and invests in musicals and plays for production. The professional and amateur theatrical licensing catalog includes Samuel French , R&H Theatricals and Tams-Witmark , representing
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#17327806861361428-600: 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
1547-552: 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
1666-621: A new label, dubbed PULSE Records. The deal builds on a partnership between Pulse and Concord started in 2020 when Concord's music publishing division acquired a stake in Pulse Music Group to form a joint venture that included Concord administering Pulse's catalog and future signings. In September 2024, Concord Label Group Merged Concord Records and Fantasy Records, now known as Concord Records. Mark Williams and Margi Cheske are co-presidents. Source: Concord's KIDZ BOP label has sold 23 million albums, generated 8 billion streams, has
1785-425: A number of artist-run label imprints, to include Levon Helm ( Dirt Farmer Music ), Indigo Girls ( IG Recording ), and Chely Wright ( Painted Red Music ), among others. This era for Vanguard also garnered the label three consecutive Grammy Awards for Levon Helm, multiple Grammy Awards for Robert Cray, and an RIAA certified platinum single for Matt Nathanson's " Come on Get Higher ." In 2008, Welk Music Group began
1904-548: 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
2023-500: 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
2142-426: A scripted series centering the history-making label Fania with Sherry Marsh, Jorge Granier and Sergio Pizzolante, an elevated genre film inspired by the music of blues legend Robert Johnson and a scripted podcast that tells the story behind the classic Mexican ballad Peregrina with Prodigal Entertainment. Concord Originals has also partnered with Skydance and Jennifer Lopez 's Nuyorican Productions to develop
2261-399: A slate of original projects based on Concord's catalog of theatrical works. Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss ( German: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈʃtʁaʊs] ; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) 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
2380-505: A stake in PULSE Music Group, a move into chart-focused A&R . Effective July 2020, Concord will administer the catalog and future signings for PULSE, an additional 10,000 songs. PULSE's current songwriter roster includes James Blake , Cordae , Trevor Daniel , El-P , Brent Faiyaz , FNZ , Tyler Johnson , Kehlani , Bonnie McKee , OG Parker , OZ, Rich The Kid , Starrah , Ty Dolla $ ign , and YEBBA . The PULSE roster
2499-411: 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 was just six years old and lasted until his death nearly eighty years later. His first tone poem to achieve wide acclaim
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#17327806861362618-490: 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
2737-517: 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
2856-1421: A vast array of popular music, classical music and many song and stage standards. As of 2022, Concord Music Publishing's active roster includes The 1975 , Glen Ballard , Fiona Bevan , BIA , Jason Robert Brown , Tofer Brown, Daft Punk , Davido , Chase + Status , Cautious Clay , Jacob Collier , Denzel Curry , James Earp, Jasper Harris, Ruston Kelly , Tom Kitt , Hillary Lindsey , Duff McKagan , Lori McKenna , Josh Miller, Justin Parker , Steve Reich , John Adams , Steve Robson , Mark Ronson , Anthony Rossomando , Biff Stannard, Varren Wade, Walshy Fire , Tion Wayne , Eric Whitacre , Oh Wonder and Yola . Concord Music Publishing's catalog of songwriters and composers includes Benny Blanco , Leonard Bernstein Sammy Cahn , Phil Collins , Willie Colón , Aaron Copland , John Fogerty, Marvin Hamlisch, Oscar Hammerstein II, Imagine Dragons , Iron Maiden , Robert Johnson , Cyndi Lauper , Jimmy Napes , Pink Floyd , Sergei Prokofiev , Trent Reznor , Richard Rodgers , Santigold , Joan Sebastian , Pete Seeger , Nikki Sixx , Igor Stravinsky and Ryan Tedder . In January 2020, Concord acquired
2975-639: 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
3094-1093: Is an independent American holding company dealing in creative rights primarily in the music industry . It develops, manages and acquires sound recordings, music publishing rights, theatrical performance rights and narrative content. It has been funded by Barings LLC (until 2016 Wood Creek Capital Management), by Sound Investors and by members of its management team. Concord holds rights to more than 1.3 million songs, composed works, plays, musicals and active recordings. In 2020, 45% of its revenue came from music, 38% from music publishing and 17% from theatricals. As of 2023, according to its CEO, it derived 85% of its revenue "from catalog, rather than newly-developed, music". Headquartered in Nashville with additional offices in Los Angeles , New York City , London , Berlin , Melbourne and Miami and staff in Auckland , Sydney , Toronto and Tokyo , Concord's repertoire
3213-645: Is credited with over 150 million units of recorded music sales, 10 billion streams and more than 250 Platinum and Gold RIAA certifications. Concord Music Publishing has also launched the new, Nashville-based talent and creative development venture Hang Your Hat Music, in partnership with GRAMMY , CMA and ACM awarded songwriter Hillary Lindsey . In April 2021, Concord acquired the roster and catalogue of Downtown Music Publishing bringing its catalog to nearly 600,000 works. In August 2022, Concord acquired Australian music publisher Native Tongue, effectively launching Concord Music Publishing ANZ. Concord Label Group
3332-555: Is licensed in virtually every country and territory worldwide. Auto dealer and jazz enthusiast Carl Jefferson started the Concord Jazz record label in 1973. He sold the label to Alliance Entertainment in 1994, and Glen Barros was appointed as CEO of the resulting company Concord Records. In 1999, film/television producer Norman Lear and entertainment executive Hal Gaba purchased the company ( Concord Jazz and Concord Records ) after Alliance filed for bankruptcy. By 2000,
3451-570: Is made up of the original Concord Music Group labels at the time of the Bicycle Music merger (wholly owned Concord / Rounder , Concord Jazz and Fantasy Records ), with Easy Eye Sound and Loma Vista Recordings as Joint Ventures. This area of Concord's business also includes its KIDZ BOP brand and its Craft Recordings catalog division. In early 2019, the company opened an office in Miami for Craft Latino Recordings. Craft represents
3570-483: Is owned by Barings Alternative Investments , Sound Investors, and seventy institutional and individual partners, including forty members of Concord Music's management team". After rebranding, Concord would define itself as "a private company funded by long-term institutional capital and members of Concord's management team". By July 2020, Alchemy Copyrights was trading as Concord; the State of Michigan Retirement System
3689-586: Is still alive in the catalogue (SC-501). As Seymour says, it was a good performance, not easy to top. Of the whole Vanguard/Bach Guild catalogue, numbering about 480 issues, 30 are Bach records..." The label also recorded other baroque and earlier works, pieces from the English Madrigal School performed by the Deller Consort , Italian and French madrigal masterpieces, Elizabethan and Jacobean music, and Henry Purcell . In 1953, under
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3808-760: 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
3927-553: 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
4046-577: 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
4165-646: 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
4284-571: 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,
4403-490: 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
4522-526: 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
4641-562: The Really Useful Group to license the composer and his collaborators' musicals, including Jesus Christ Superstar , School of Rock , Evita , Cats , and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat . Concord Theatricals is a co-producer on the currently running Broadway shows Hadestown and the 2022 revival of Into The Woods for which Concord Theatricals/Craft Recordings released
4760-678: 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
4879-685: 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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4998-711: 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 ,
5117-614: The Utah Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maurice Abravanel , including one of the first sets of the complete ten symphonies of Gustav Mahler , a complete performance of The Nutcracker , as well as the earlier P.D.Q. Bach recordings, from 1965 to 1983. Vanguard was the first American label to release the complete 1944 high fidelity recordings of composer Richard Strauss conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in most of his tone poems;
5236-463: The Utah Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maurice Abravanel . After entering the rock and roll market by signing Country Joe and the Fish , Vanguard started a 6500 series for releases by rock acts but had little success. By the early 1970s, with acts such as Joan Baez and Ian & Sylvia leaving for other labels, and disappointing sales for the "Everyman" budget classical series, Vanguard's stature in
5355-706: The Auvergne, Viennese dances with Willi Boskovsky , traditional songs by Roland Hayes , Vivaldi's Four Seasons and other concertos from I Solisti di Zagreb , music by Ralph Vaughan Williams , numerous Haydn symphonies performed by the Esterhazy Orchestra, a double LP of Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice sung in Italian with the Vienna State Opera Orchestra led by Charles Mackerras , and an influential Mahler cycle with
5474-504: 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,
5593-663: 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
5712-761: The Bicycle Music Company division managed publishing and rights. As Concord Bicycle Music, the company acquired Razor & Tie , Vanguard Records , Sugar Hill Records , Wind-up Records , Fearless Records , and Musart Music Group including its Edimusa publishing arm (2016). Following the merger announcement, the Delaware parent and the California branch of Concord Bicycle Assets LLC were incorporated on October 21 and 22, 2015, respectively. On June 2, 2017, Concord Bicycle Music purchased European-based publishing company Imagem Music Group from
5831-459: 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 ,
5950-561: The Michigan State Retirement System, to consider a sale of its stake in the company. "We got some very strong bids, and we passed on all of them," commented the then Concord CEO Scott Pascucci. Pascucci reported that Concord received several bids that were "extremely aggressive" but none that were "extraordinary plus." In September 2022, Concord purchased the publishing and recorded music catalogues of Tony Banks , Phil Collins , and Mike Rutherford , as well as
6069-754: 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
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#17327806861366188-597: 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
6307-484: 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
6426-667: The New York, Nashville, and London-based music publisher, Mojo Music & Media. The catalog includes works of bands such as REO Speedwagon , Kiss , and Cheap Trick . Additionally in September 2023, Concord made an offer to acquire the entirety of Round Hill Music Royalty Fund (RHM) – the UK-listed fund operated by Round Hill Music. In October 2023, the RHM shareholders approved the acquisition, with over 99% of shareholders supporting
6545-517: 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,
6664-423: The State of Michigan Retirement Systems invested its first $ 25 million into Concord Music Group through Wood Creek Capital Management (a wholly owned unit of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company ). In March 2013, Concord Music Group was acquired from Village Roadshow Entertainment Group by an investor group led by Wood Creek Capital Management and Sound Investors LLC for an estimated $ 120 million. Many of
6783-408: 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
6902-843: 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
7021-592: The Weavers . It continued to issue folk music with newly signed artists Joan Baez , Hedy West , the Rooftop Singers , Buffy Sainte-Marie , Ian and Sylvia , and Mimi and Richard Fariña . Around this time, Vanguard briefly ran a hi-fi record division titled Vanguard Stereolab; the English band Stereolab took their name from this. In the summer of 1965, Maynard Solomon hired Samuel Charters to edit
7140-439: 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 ,
7259-489: 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
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#17327806861367378-424: 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
7497-532: 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
7616-411: 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
7735-759: The cast album. The Into the Woods (2022 Broadway Cast Recording) won the GRAMMY Award for Best Music Theater Album on February 5, 2023. In 2019, Concord formed a Film & Television Development and Production Department to oversee all long-form audio-visual content produced by both Concord and third-party companies. In 2021, the Company launched Concord Originals as its narrative content creation business that will focus on developing and producing stories anchored by Concord's artists, music and theatrical works. The division's slate consists of feature films, series, documentaries and podcasts, including remakes and re-imaginings of properties from Concord's iconic portfolio. Concord Originals recently executive produced Billie ,
7854-709: The company had begun to receive financial backing from J.P. Morgan & Co. In 2004, Concord Records acquired Fantasy, Inc., owner of Prestige , Fantasy, Milestone, Riverside, Specialty, and the post- Atlantic Stax catalog. Concord then combined with Fantasy to form the Concord Music Group. Several label acquisitions and partnerships followed including Telarc (2005) and Rounder Records (2010). In 2005, Universal began to distribute Concord's recorded music worldwide, which accounted for about 5% of Universal's US market share in 2020. In February 2008, Concord Music Group merged with Village Roadshow Pictures to form Village Roadshow Entertainment Group (VREG). In 2010,
7973-541: 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
8092-418: 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
8211-523: 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
8330-407: 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
8449-503: The deal. With this transaction, Concord exceeded the $ 2 billion mark in its spending "across recorded music, music publishing and theatricals" since the 2015 merger. In 2017, when Concord purchased the Imagem Music Group, it tripled the size of its catalog bringing it to nearly 800,000 copyrights. The Imagem purchase also brought classical music publisher Boosey & Hawkes and The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization into Concord Music Publishing. Concord's publishing catalog now includes
8568-551: The direction of John Hammond , the company began the Jazz Showcase series that concentrated on mainstream jazz, producing about two dozen recordings before it was closed in 1958. Recordings made at the Spirituals to Swing concerts in 1938 and 1939 were released by Vanguard in 1959. The company only intermittently pursued recording jazz after that. In the mid-1950s Vanguard signed blacklisted performers Paul Robeson and
8687-620: 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
8806-517: 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
8925-508: 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
9044-454: 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,
9163-448: 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
9282-423: 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
9401-454: The estimation of its chief business development officer Steve Salm, the company's revenue placed it in between "corporate giants" and "most indies", which gave it "an advantage in deals". The name Concord Music remained in use until early 2019. By May 1, 2019, the company was restyled as Concord. Concord Music had described itself as "a wholly owned subsidiary" or as "the operating entity of Alchemy Copyrights LLC, an investment company that
9520-484: The industry to date in terms of both size of issuance and number of assets (over one million copyrights). Proceeds from the issuance were to be reinvested to support Concord's continued growth in 2023 and beyond. On July 1, 2023, Bob Valentine (previously the chief financial officer ) replaced Scott Pascucci as CEO, and Pascucci was appointed to the board of directors. On August 11, 2023, Concord, together with its distributor Universal Music Group and Sony Music ,
9639-470: The label, reissuing much of its extensive folk and popular music back catalogue (a good deal of which had been out of print for several years) on CD, as well as signing a number of new artists (such as Matt Nathanson , Mindy Smith , Greg Laswell , and Trevor Hall ), in addition to established musicians such as Merle Haggard , John Fogerty , Chris Isaak , Robert Cray , Shawn Mullins , and Linda Ronstadt . The label also formed marketing partnerships with
9758-473: The label. A few disco albums by acts such as Players Association , Alphone Mouzon's "Poussez", and Marcus Barone's "The Ring/Savage Lover" were released on Vanguard with both domestic and worldwide chart impact. After this period of near-dormancy, Vanguard was sold to the Welk Music Group in 1985. The Welk Group sold the classical music catalog back to Seymour Solomon. Welk Music Group revitalized
9877-704: The latter came from the United Kingdom's Pye Records label, featuring performances by the Halle Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli . The recordings were so exceptional that many classical radio stations programmed them. Vanguard even released some quadraphonic classical recordings in the early 1970s, including a performance of Tchaikovsky 's Fourth Symphony with the American Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski . The label also released many performances by
9996-650: 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
10115-454: 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
10234-427: The many labels for which these artists' originally recorded, including Sugar Hill , Vanguard , Musart , Savoy Jazz , Stax , Vee-Jay , Fania , Independiente and Varese Sarabande . Craft also represents the R.E.M. catalog originally released under Warner Bros. Records . In September 2022, Concord acquired the assets of L.A. Reid 's HitCo Entertainment. In June 2023, Concord and PULSE Music Group launched
10353-483: The music industry was diminished. The label stayed minimally active with specialty releases such as those by Indian classical musician and sarod virtuoso Vasant Rai . An unexpected novelty hit on Vanguard, " Shaving Cream " by Benny Bell , led the company to release albums of humorous music inspired by Dr. Demento . In the late 1970s Tom Paxton issued two albums, New Songs from the Briar-patch and Heroes , on
10472-520: 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
10591-502: 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
10710-456: 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
10829-523: 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
10948-621: 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
11067-424: 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
11186-431: The president of SFX briefly in 2000 and chief operating officer of SFX's successor Clear Channel Entertainment from 2001 to 2002. He had acquired Bicycle Music in 2004, where he worked with Jake Wisely and partnered up with Steven Salm of Wood Creek in 2006 to boost the company's financing. By the end of April 2013, Smith was chairman of a company called Alchemy Copyrights. On October 28, 2014, Alchemy Copyrights LLC
11305-401: The publishing and recorded music catalogue from their years in the band Genesis . In December 2022, Concord successfully closed $ 1.8 billion of senior notes , secured by a significant portion of its diversified catalogue of sound recordings and songs. Led by Apollo Global Management and assisted by J.P. Morgan, it was the largest asset-backed securitization offering of music rights in
11424-531: The recordings were made on the Magnetophon tape recording equipment in the Vienna Opera House. The multiplicity of popular in-house classical music series released by the Solomons on Vanguard and Bach Guild between 1950 and 1966 include, in addition to 22 Bach cantatas , the virtuoso trumpet, virtuoso flute and virtuoso oboe, along with German University Songs with Erich Kunz , songs of
11543-479: The same investors also owned a majority interest in independent music publisher Bicycle Music Company . Norman Lear retired to become chairman emeritus, replaced by Steve Smith who joined Concord Music Group from the new owner consortium along with Scott Pascucci. Smith, who had co-founded the music industry tip sheet Album Network in the late 1970s and sold it to Network Magazine Group and SJS Entertainment, itself acquired by SFX Entertainment in 1998, had been
11662-421: 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
11781-690: 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
11900-561: The tapes of the 1964 Newport Folk Festival . Following that project, the company sent Charters to Chicago to capture the broad range of blues musicians there. Those sessions resulted in the 1966 three-album series titled Chicago/The Blues/Today! . The albums included Junior Wells with Buddy Guy , Muddy Waters 's bandmates Otis Spann and James Cotton , Otis Rush , Homesick James , Johnny Shines , Big Walter Horton , and Charlie Musselwhite . Vanguard released numerous classical recordings, both domestically produced and imported. Many of
12019-693: The two music industry giants, sued the Internet Archive over its Great 78 Project for $ 621 million in damages from alleged copyright infringement. The charge was filed before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on the date of its final ruling in the Hachette v. Internet Archive case. In September 2023, it was announced Concord had acquired the music publishing catalog of
12138-583: 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
12257-1097: The works of Jerome Kern , Irving Berlin , George & Ira Gershwin , Rodgers and Hart , Cole Porter , Kurt Weill , Rodgers and Hammerstein , Jule Styne , Comden and Green , Charles Strouse & Lee Adams , Cy Coleman , Jerry Herman , Kander and Ebb and Marvin Hamlisch , and shows and songs by musical theater composers Lin-Manuel Miranda , Adam Guettel , Jason Robert Brown , Shaina Taub and Michael John LaChiusa . Concord Theatricals also licenses hundreds of Broadway musicals including The Wizard of Oz , A Chorus Line , Hello Dolly , Bye Bye Birdie , Dreamgirls , Hair , Gypsy , SIX , Spongebob The Musical and Hadestown . Playwrights include George S. Kaufman , Lindsay and Crouse , Agatha Christie , Thornton Wilder , Noël Coward , Tennessee Williams , Neil Simon , Edward Albee , Lorraine Hansberry , Tom Stoppard , Caryl Churchill , August Wilson , Harvey Fierstein , Ken Ludwig , Dominique Morisseau , Anne Washburn and Mac Rogers. Concord Theatricals also works with Andrew Lloyd Webber and
12376-585: 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
12495-408: 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
12614-412: 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 was Salome , which used a libretto by Hedwig Lachmann that was a German translation of
12733-574: 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
12852-407: 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
12971-621: Was acquired by Entertainment One in 2010. Vanguard Music Group was acquired by Concord Bicycle Music in April 2015., Concord's Craft Recordings unit manages the Vanguard catalog. Vanguard used the Brooklyn Masonic Temple in New York City as one of its recording studios for many of its sessions. (Partial list) Concord Bicycle Music Concord , the assumed business name of Alchemy Copyrights LLC ,
13090-410: 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
13209-440: 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
13328-518: Was incorporated, with its headquarters registered as Wilmington , Delaware . On December 23, 2014, its Nashville-based subsidiary and namesake was formed. On April 1, 2015, Concord Music Group, still led by Glen Barros, announced its merger with Bicycle Music , owned by Wood Creek and led by Jake Wisely. The merged companies became subsidiaries of Concord Bicycle Music, a portfolio company of Wood Creek, with Scott Pascucci as CEO. The Concord Music Group division oversaw recorded music activities, and
13447-540: 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
13566-429: Was its "ultimate parent". On January 1, 2021, Jake Wisely, the former Bicycle Music CEO and a partner at Concord, was succeeded by Jim Selby as the chief publishing executive of Concord and joined its board of directors. On April 26, 2021, Concord acquired Downtown's copyrights consisting of 145,000 owned and co-published copyrights for $ 300 million. In late 2021, incoming interest prompted Concord majority owner,
13685-403: 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,
13804-545: 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
13923-421: 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
14042-499: 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
14161-456: 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
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