Don Juan, Op. 20

by Richard Strauss

Unrivaled in their descriptive power, the masterful tone poems of Richard Strauss also possess the remarkable ability to convey psychological detail in music. This celebrated symphonic poem is reproduced from an authentic first edition, complete with English translations of programmatic texts, instrumentation, original title pages, and the composer's musical indications in the score.

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

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.