Last Saturday's interesting melange included Ernst Toch, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Yardumian and a brief excerpt from a new `` space '' opera by the Swedish composer, Karl-Birger Blomdahl.

He studied organ there from 1885 – 1893 with Eugène Munch, organist of the Protestant Temple, who inspired Schweitzer with his profound enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner.

* 1921 – Richard Adler, American songwriter and composer ( d. 2012 )

* 1657 – Michel Richard Delalande, French Baroque composer and organist ( d. 1726 )

* 1979 – Richard Rodgers, American composer ( b. 1902 )

After 1906 the composer Richard Wetz lived in Erfurt and became the leading person in the town's musical life.

The original score was composed by British classical composer Richard Rodney Bennett.

* Richard Hol ( 1825 – 1904 ), Dutch composer and conductor

The respected composer Richard Strauss, for example, became head of the Reich Music Chamber.

* 1928 – Richard M. Sherman, American composer, songwriter, and publisher

* 1850 – Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic ( d. 1914 )

* 1670 – Richard Leveridge, English singer and composer ( d. 1758 )

* 1904 – Richard Addinsell, British composer ( Warsaw Concerto ) ( d. 1977 )

Richard Kim Milford ( February 7, 1951 – June 16, 1988 ) was an American actor, singer-songwriter, and composer.

* 1844 – Richard D ' Oyly Carte, English talent agent, impresario, and composer ( d. 1901 )

The composer Richard Wagner ( 1813 – 83 ) ( Der Ring des Nibelungen, 1853 – 70 ) and playwright Henrik Ibsen ( 1828 – 1906 ) were prominent in their critiques of contemporary civilization and for warnings that accelerating " progress " would lead to the creation of individuals detached from social values and isolated from their fellow men.

His paternal grandfather was Maximilian Steiner ( 1830 – 1880 ), the influential manager of Vienna's Theater an der Wien ; his father was Gabor Steiner ( 1858 – 1944 ), Viennese impresario and carnival and exposition manager, responsible for the Ferris wheel in the Prater that would become the setting for a key scene of the film The Third Man ( 1949 ); his godfather was the composer Richard Strauss.

* 1758 – Richard Leveridge, English bass singer and composer ( b. 1670 )

* 2007 – Richard Joseph, British games soundtrack composer ( b. 1954 )

* 1914 – Richard E Holz, American composer ( d. 1986 )

* 1977 – Richard Parry, Canadian musician and composer ( Arcade Fire )

In the Prose Edda, and a single poem in the Poetic Edda, the event is referred to as Ragnarök or Ragnarøkkr ( Old Norse " Fate of the Gods " or " Twilight of the Gods " respectively ), a usage popularized by 19th century composer Richard Wagner with the title of the last of his Der Ring des Nibelungen operas, Götterdämmerung ( 1876 ).

" Usage of this form was popularized in modern popular culture by 19th century composer Richard Wagner by way of the title of the last of his Der Ring des Nibelungen operas, Götterdämmerung.

Heydrich was born in 1904 in Halle an der Saale to composer and opera singer Richard Bruno Heydrich and his wife Elisabeth Anna Maria Amalia Krantz, a Roman Catholic.

* 1926 – Richard Ellsasser, American organist, composer, and conductor ( d. 1972 )

* 1825 – Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer ( d. 1899 )

* Richard Strauss – composer

* September 8 – Richard Strauss, German composer ( b. 1864 )

* December 28 – Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer ( b. 1835 )

* June 11 – Richard Strauss, German composer ( d. 1949 )

* March 14 – Johann Strauss Senior, Austrian composer ( d. 1849 )

* September 25 – Johann Strauss, Senior, Austrian composer ( b. 1804 )

* March 15 – Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer ( d. 1916 )

* October 25 – Johann Strauss, Junior, Austrian composer ( d. 1899 )

Franz Strauss, the father of the composer Richard Strauss played the French horn at the premiere, despite his often-expressed dislike of Wagner, who was present at many of the rehearsals.

According to Operabase, he has more operas played worldwide than any other composer born in the twentieth century, and only Puccini and Richard Strauss come ahead of him if the list is extended to all operas composed after 1900.

Both Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler recognized Schoenberg's significance as a composer ; Strauss when he encountered Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder, and Mahler after hearing several of Schoenberg's early works.

Richard Georg Strauss ( 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949 ) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras.

Strauss's seeming relationship with the Nazis in the 1930s attracted criticism from some noted musicians, including Arturo Toscanini, who in 1933 had said, " To Strauss the composer I take off my hat ; to Strauss the man I put it back on again ," when Strauss had accepted the presidency of the Reichsmusikkammer.

As he descended the staircase he announced to Lieutenant Milton Weiss of the U. S. Army, " I am Richard Strauss, the composer of Rosenkavalier and Salome.

During his lifetime Strauss was considered the greatest composer of the first half of the 20th century, and his music had a profound influence on the development of 20th-century music.

There were few 20th-century composers who compared with Strauss in terms of orchestral imagination, and no composer since Wagner made a more significant contribution to the history of opera.

Strauss himself declared in 1947 with characteristic self-deprecation, " I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.