{"product_id":"the-cambridge-companion-to-richard-strauss-cambridge-companions-to-music-9780521728157","title":"The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss (Cambridge Companions to Music)","description":"\u003cp\u003eRichard Strauss is a composer much loved among audiences throughout the world  both in the opera house and the concert hall. Despite this popularity  Strauss was for many years ignored by scholars  who considered his commercial success and his continued reliance on the tonal system to be liabilities. However  the past two decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in the composer. This Companion surveys the results  focusing on the principal genres  the social and historical context  and topics perennially controversial over the last century. Chapters cover Strausss immense operatic output  the electrifying modernism of his tone poems  and his ever-popular Lieder. Controversial topics are explored  including Strausss relationship to the Third Reich and the sexual dimension of his works. Reintroducing the composer and his music in light of recent research  the volume shows Strausss artistic personality to be richer and much more complicated than has been previously acknowledged.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665830404149,"sku":"ByrdShop_0521728150","price":63.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780521728157.jpg?v=1782409069","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-cambridge-companion-to-richard-strauss-cambridge-companions-to-music-9780521728157","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}