Franz Joseph Strauss (1822-1905)
- Concert (c-moll) für Waldhorn ... Op. 8 (1865)
Performers: Barry Tuckwеll (1931-2020, horn); London Symphony Orchestra; István Kеrtész (1929-1973, conductor)
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German horn player and composer, father of Richard Strauss (1864-1949).
He was the illegitimate son of the police officer Johann Urbann Strauss
and of Maria Walter. He was recognised by his father. When he was only
fifteen years old he became a guitar player at the Hofkapelle of Duke
Maximilian. Soon he became a solo hornist at the opera orchestra and
after that he was engaged as a hornist at the Royal Bavarian Court
Orchestra, a post he held until his retirement in 1889. When he was 32
years old his first wife and his two children died of cholera. In 1863
he married again. His second wife was Josephine Pschorr, the daughter of
the brewer Georg Pschorr. In 1864 their son Richard Strauss was born.
In 1871 he became a professor at the Academy in Munich. In 1875 he was
elected conductor of the amateur orchestra, the "Wilde Gung'l", a post
he held for 21 years. As a composer, he wrote a Concert für Waldhorn,
Op.8 (1865), a Nocturne, Op.7 and Empfindungen am Meere for Horn and
Piano Op.12, and 17 Konzertetuden and Ubungenfur Naturhorn. His musical
taste was very conservative and among his most admired composers were
Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Although a violent opponent of Wagner, the
master valued him highly, and entrusted to him at the premieres of
'Tristan und Isolde', 'Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg', and 'Parsifal'.
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