The table below shows an incomplete list of compositions by

Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wag ...

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Only 88 compositions by the German composer Richard Strauss (1864–1949) have been assigned

opus number In musicology, the opus number is the "work number" that is assigned to a musical composition, or to a set of compositions, to indicate the chronological order of the composer's production. Opus numbers are used to distinguish among compositi ...

s; these numbers are shown in the table below in the column "Op." Two volumes of a catalogue of the remaining works were published by Erich Hermann Mueller von Asow (1892–1964) in 1959. After von Asow's death (d. 1993) and Alfons Ott (d. 1976) published the third volume, based on von Asow's notes; this catalogue lists 323 titles, including Strauss's literary writings. The numbers for compositions from this catalogue are shown in the column "AV" in the table below. During the 15 years it took to publish von Asow's work, many new sources became available, so Franz Trenner created a new chronological catalogue in 1985, a slim volume of 153 pages without

incipit The incipit () of a text is the first few words of the text, employed as an identifying label. In a musical composition, an incipit is an initial sequence of notes, having the same purpose. The word ''incipit'' comes from Latin and means "it b ...

s. A second updated edition of 400 pages for all works of Strauss was published in 1993 with incipits, and his son Florian Trenner published a completely revised edition of 496 pages in 1999; this catalogue lists 298 works and its numbers are shown in the column "TrV" below.Another catalogue was created by Johannes Hanstein, co-author of the web site Klassika; he used letters to group works (A = Orchestral works, B = Works for solo instruments and orchestra, C = Chamber music, D = Lieder, E = Choral works, F = Stage works) and Roman numerals for sub-groups (e.g. for Group "A. Orchestral works" : I = Symphonies, II = Symphonic Poems, III = Other Orchestral Works), and finally Arabic numerals for the individual works; this catalogue is merely a listing of titles and opus numbers, where applicable, and years, but without any annotations. See
"Richard Strauss: Catalogue of works" by Johannes Hanstein
co-author of the web site Klassika The year shown is the year of the first performance, unless there is a large gap between the dates of composition and premiere; in that case, the year refers to the date of composition and the date of the premiere is shown in the column "Work."

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Richard Strauss
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