Renowned as the gifted composer of a string of masterworks, Richard Strauss (1864-1949) is less often remembered for his achievement as a major conductor. This book considers Strauss' career as a conductor and places it in relation to his life as a composer.
This element examines the annotated scores of ten iconic conductors as didactic and interpretative tools and explores the ways in which the performance styles of these conductors are reflected in their annotated scores and marked orchestral parts of Mozart's Symphony No. 41, K. 551 ('Jupiter').
The Royal Academy of Music has been training and inspiring successive generations of music makers and leaders from all over the world for 200 years. This volume brings together forty interviews with eminent international musical figures conducted between 2009 and 2018, serving as a valuable collection of exceptional life stories.