Cambridge Companions to Music The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss, (Hardcover)

Richard Strauss is a composer much loved among audiences throughout the world, both in the opera house and the concert hall.

Despite this popularity, Strauss was for many years ignored by scholars, who considered his commercial success and his continued reliance on the tonal system to be liabilities.

However, the past two decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in the composer.