Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss 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.

11 June 1864

Born on the same birth day (11 June): Anne Neville • Ayaka Sasaki • Fabiola of Belgium • George Wither • Graeme Bachop • John Dyson (Australian cricketer) • John W. O'Malley • Julia Margaret Cameron • Mohammad Hassan Ganji • Natascha Artin Brunswick • Richard Todd • Roger Bresnahan • Sebastian Bayer • Steve Bassam, Baron Bassam of Brighton

Born in the same month (June 1864): Alois Alzheimer • Dwight B. Waldo • Frank Chapman (ornithologist) • Frederick Bligh Bond • Heinrich Wölfflin • Hermann Minkowski • Jeanne Bérangère • Ninian Comper • Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Otto Erich Hartleben • Ransom E. Olds • Rudolf Kjellén