by Kevin T McEneaney Richard Strauss began composing at the age of nine. At the age of 21, he composed a Serenade and a Burleske in D minor (1886, revised in 1889), written for the conductor Hans Bülow, who rejected the work as unplayable. Strauss was an anti-Wagnerian and was deeply influenced by Brahms and Liszt, yet he projected his own perspective with unusual (often startling) combinations of interactions between the lead piano and orchestr…
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