IDAGIO | Ernst von Dohnany · Richard Strauss: Chamber Works 761203556526

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Hellen Weiss
Paul Rivinius
Wen Xiao Zheng
Gabriel Schwabe
Ernö Dohnányi
Richard Strauss

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Compositional Technique

Strauss's Violin Sonata is conceived orchestrally, with harmony pushed to its limits and an expansive piano part, revealing his passionate 'Wagnerian' tendencies.

Critical Reception

Despite a rather uncelebrated premiere, Richard Strauss's Violin Sonata is now considered a benchmark work for violin and piano duos.

Composer Biography

Richard Strauss's career as a musician seemed predestined, as he was the son of the principal horn player of the Munich Court Orchestra.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Dohnányi remained committed to Late Romantic music throughout his life, understanding music as an organic unity where one thing grows out of another.

Composer Biography

Ernst von Dohnányi, a central figure in Hungarian music, studied at the Budapest Academy of Music alongside Béla Bartók and was an important protégé of Johannes Brahms.

Composition History

Richard Strauss's Violin Sonata in E flat major, Op. 18, marks the culmination of his Classicistic-Romantic early phase before he turned to Franz Liszt's influence.

Composer Biography

Dohnányi supported Jewish composers and orchestral members of the Philharmonic Society during the anti-Semitic and Fascistic tendencies prevalent in Hungary in the 1930s and 1940s.