Richard Strauss
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Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer and conductor known for his tone poems and operas. He was a leading figure of the late Romantic and early Modern era.
Strauss in 1904
Franz Strauss, father of Richard Strauss
Strauss aged 22
Pauline de Ahna Strauss, c. 1900
Pauline de Ahna
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Pauline Maria de Ahna, also known as Pauline Strauss, was a German operatic soprano and the wife of composer Richard Strauss. Her singing career was closely tied to her husband's career as a conductor
Richard Strauss
…and Leipzig. In Leipzig he met and befriended the composer Gustav Mahler in the autumn of 1887. Also happily, Strauss met his future wife, soprano Pauline de Ahna, in 1887. De Ahna was then a voice student at the Munich Musikschule, now the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, but soon switched to…
Strauss, De Ahna and their son, Franz, 1910