Not Johann

Happy birthday, Richard Strauss.  Thanks to Stanley Kubrick, one of his compositions is so famous it's become a cliche.



Strauss was a celebrated composer and conductor in his day, and I think he'd be suprised to know so much of his fame rests on the opening of Also sprach Zarathustra. He was generally a modest man, but if anything he wrote were to be remembered, I'd guess he'd have bet on something like Der Rosenkavalier.