Richard Strauss: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Richard Strauss by Herbert Francis Peyser: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 4 original MP3 tracks, 1:31:47 running time and a link to listen.
Richard Strauss, credited to Herbert Francis Peyser, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of Richard Strauss by Herbert Francis Peyser. Read in English by David Wales. There was not much truly spectacular about the course of [Strauss's] life, which was most happily free from the material troubles which bedeviled the existence of so many great masters... If “Salome” and “Elektra”, “Ein Heldenleben” and “Till Eulenspiegel” were in their day scandalously “sensational” did not the whirligig of time reveal them as incontestable products of genius, irrespective of inequalities and flaws? However Richard Strauss compares in the last analysis with this or that master he contributed to the language of music idioms, procedures and technical accomplishments typical of the confused years and conflicting ideals out of which they were born. His works are most decidedly of an age, whether or not they are for all time! From Author's Foreword.
Recording facts
- Recording title: Richard Strauss
- Author credits: Herbert Francis Peyser
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 4
- Listed recording duration: 1:31:47
Catalogue topics
- music
- nineteenth century
- Romanticism
- twentieth century
- composer
- strauss
Track guide
- 00 - Foreword — 2:36
- 01 - Part 1 — 28:38
- 02 - Part 2 — 28:31
- 03 - Part 3 — 32:02
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