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Richard Georg Strauss, a native of Bavaria, is known as a composer of tone poems and orchestral works, as well as opera. Among his works are Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration, Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and An Alpine Symphony. His operas include Salome, Elektra, and Der Rosenkavalier. Music historian Milton Cross writes that Strauss's tone poems, songs, and operas written 1885-1910 were by a genius, citing the use of dissonance, orchestral virtuosity, the use of special machines to produce sounds of wind or thunder, often works of passion and sensuality. Cross states, "These early works were filled with pages of majestic, poetic, inspired music which burst on the closing nineteenth century line a blinding flash of sunlight." 
 A stamp in the series honoring music composers features Richard Strauss (1864-1949) on the 150th anniversary of his birth. The €0,70 stamp was an original sketch by the Milanese artist Marco Ventura. The stamps were printed in sheets of ten. A compact disc containing a selection of Strauss's works was also available at €9,90. 	 	
Marco Ventura's work on Vatican City stamps was profiled in the 2012 third quarter issue of Vatican Notes. You can view the article by clicking on the reference below. 
Reference: <a href='https://www.vaticanstamps.org/vaticannotes/idisplay.php?p=60-353-16-17&r=0'>Artist Interview - Marco Ventura</a>

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