{"id":41409,"date":"2000-08-01T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2000-07-31T23:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/gothenburg-symphony-orchestra\/richard-strauss\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:55:00","slug":"richard-strauss","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/discover\/composers\/richard-strauss\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Strauss (1864-1949)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The composer often sat in the opera darkness where he got the musical experiences of his life when Wagner\u2019s huge works were staged, magnificent both in terms of scenography, performance and musical richness of sound. This is where his taste for \u201cextra everything\u201d was born!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Strauss-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1264\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course he composed a couple of symphonies and concerts for horn (dad&#8217;s instrument), violin and piano, but they were anonymous youth works bound in traditional forms. His creativity was fully vented only when he began writing poems with a literary background &#8211; where his imagination was ignited and he could work freely in the late romantic orchestra&#8217;s wonderful sound palette, which he expanded with both fine nuances and vibrant, intense colors. Richard Strauss&#8217; music often takes your breath away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The composer often sat in the opera darkness where he got the musical experiences of his life when Wagner\u2019s huge works were staged, magnificent both in terms of scenography, performance and musical richness of sound. This is where his taste for \u201cextra everything\u201d was born! Of course he composed a couple of symphonies and concerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":65452,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/standard-large-image.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41409","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-15 06:33:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"translation_priority"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41409"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117813,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41409\/revisions\/117813"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gso.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}