Elektra: A Tragedy in One Act by Hugo Hoffmannsthal, Op.58

by Richard Strauss

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1943

About the author

Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer and conductor best known for his tone poems and operas. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt. Along with Gustav Mahler, he represents the late flowering of German Romanticism, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style.