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Don Quixote Day at Ravinia

The Classical Music Pages.
Richard Strauss:
http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/strauss_r.html
Supplies an extract from The Groves Concise Dictionary of Music and information about the composer's works, a picture gallery and a bibliography.

Composer Biography.
Strauss, Richard:
http://www.sfsymphony.org/templates/composer.asp?nodeid=203
The San Francisco Symphony provides a biography, list of works and audio clips of Also Sprach Zarathustra and Don Juan

Don Quixote, Fantastic Variations for Cello & Orchestra, Opus 35:
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=42:53857
This site features an essay by Roger Dettmer.

Essentials of Music, Composers:
http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/composer/strauss.html
Sony Music Entertainment provides a brief biography of Strauss as well as audio samples of Don Quixote, Also Sprach Zarathustra and the Prelude from the Suite from Le Bourgoise Gentilhomme, Op. 60.

Richard Strauss
http://www.azopera.com/learn/composer/strauss/index.shtml
A brief biography of the composer supplied by the Arizona Opera.

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
www.arts.arizona.edu/mus330b/images/straussdonquixote.htm
J. Michael Allsen's program notes for Don Quixote, Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character, Op. 35.

The Richard Strauss Page
http://people.unt.edu/~dmeek/rstrauss.html
David Meek provides links to a variety of Strauss web resources.

Richard Strauss Picture Gallery:
http://www.klassika.info/Komponisten/Strauss_R/
This German site provides five photographs and a portrait of Strauss.

Richard-Strauss.Com:
http://www.richard-strauss.at
A work-in-progress, this site aims to be a clearinghouse for all manner of information about Strauss and his music.

Web sites for children

Richard Strauss, Composer:
http://www.dsokids.com/2001/dso.asp?PageID=495
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra's children's web site features a brief biography of Strauss.

Web sites about the book or author

The Cervantes Project at
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes
(from Texas A&M University)

The Don Quixote Exhibit at
http://quixote.mse.jhu.edu
(from Johns Hopkins University)


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