Richard Strauss was trapped in Nazi Germany just as the Russian intellectuals were under Stalin in the Soviet regime. The image of Richard Strauss and his music was abused by the Nazi propaganda machine, to a point of damaging the composer's posthumous reputation. She was famous for being dominant and ill-tempered, but she was also a source of inspiration to Strauss, resulting in the preferred use of the soprano voice in his compositions. In 1894, Strauss married soprano singer Pauline Maria de Ahna. He abandoned his father's conservative style and began writing symphonic tone poems. Strauss emerged from under his father's influence when he met Alexander Ritter, a composer, and the husband of one of the nieces of Richard Wagner. In 1885 he replaced Hans von Bulow as the principal conductor of the Munich Orchestra. Strauss studied philosophy and art history at Munich University, then at Berlin University. In 1874 Strauss heard operas by Richard Wagner, but his father did not share his son's interest and forbade him to study Wagner's music until the age of 16. He was also attending orchestral rehearsals. From the age of 10 he studied music theory and orchestration with an assistant conductor of the Munich Court Orchestra. He wrote his first composition at the age of 6. Young Strauss was taught music by his father. His father, named Franz Strauss, was the principal horn player at the Royal Opera in Munich. He was born Richard Georg Strauss on June 11, 1864, in Munich, Bavaria (now Germany). Richard Strauss was a German composer best known for symphonic poem 'Also sprach Zarathustra' (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1896) used as the music score in 2001: Космічна Одіссея (1968) by director Stanley Kubrick.
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