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    Don Juan, Op. 20, is a tone poem in E major for large orchestra written by the German composer Richard Strauss in 1888. The work is based on Don Juans...
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    Don Juan (Spanish: [doŋ ˈxwan]), also known as Don Giovanni (Italian), is a legendary, fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women...
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  • Look up Don Juan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Don Juan is a legendary fictional libertine. Don Juan may also refer to: John, Prince of Asturias...
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    written before Don Juan and Death & Transfiguration, but premiered after both of them. After leaving the University of Munich in 1883, Strauss left for Dresden...
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    Excerpt from Don Juan (1:48) Performed by Dmitri Kitayenko with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Problems playing this file? See media help. Strauss wrote two...
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    Don Quixote, Op. 35 is a tone poem by Richard Strauss for cello, viola, and orchestra. Subtitled Phantastische Variationen über ein Thema ritterlichen...
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    interpolated in the score for Don Juan was "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks," a tone poem by the German composer Richard Strauss. At the time of the event...
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    convincing pacing of musical events so evident in the two antecedent works [Don Juan and Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration)]. And despite revisions...
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    Ein Heldenleben (category Tone poems by Richard Strauss)
    from Strauss's earlier works, including Also sprach Zarathustra, Till Eulenspiegel, Don Quixote, Don Juan, and Death and Transfiguration. Strauss began...
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    is very similar to the "wonderful oboe solo from Don Juan, to be composed five years later". Strauss recorded the song twice with himself at the piano:...
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