任何一部权威性的西方音乐史专著,都不能没有理查·施特劳斯的名字。他是德国后浪漫主义最杰出的作曲家。像马勒一样,他还是个优秀的指挥。他在19世纪生活了36年,在本世纪度过了48个风风雨雨的春秋寒暑。二战结束后第四个年头才离开了这个充满迷惘和苦难深重的世界。1933年11月15日,纳粹在宣传部的下面设置了一个官方机构:帝国音乐局。戈培尔根据希特勒的指示,特任命理 Any authoritative Western history of music monograph, can not be without Richard Strauss’s name. He is the most outstanding composer of post-romanticism in Germany. Like Mahler, he is still a good conductor. He lived for 36 years in the 19th century and had 48 ups and downs during the spring and autumn of this century. The fourth year after World War II left the world full of confusion and misery. On November 15, 1933, the Nazis set up an official body below the Propaganda Department: the Imperial Music Agency. Goebbels appointed special managers under Hitler’s instructions