Richard Strauss Vocal Divertimento "four Last Songs" Art Features And Its Singing

Song—cycle The Last Four Songs is the swan’s last peak of poetic perfection that one of the most famous German composers Richard Strauss had created before he died. Four Last Songs&Orchestral Songs as a highly representative vocal works in Richard Strauss’ late creation, it is not only the essence of integration in Strauss Art Songs for nearly80years, is also reflected the brilliant achievements gained by the early development of German art song in the late19th century to20th centuryThis paper uses Richard Strauss Four Last Songs&Orchestral Songs as a object of study. the main body is divided into three parts:the first chapter overviews Strauss’ life and the "Four Last Songs&Orchestral Songs" creative background; second chapter emphasizes the artistic features of the "Four Last Songs&Orchestral Songs ", including lyrics, melody, harmony, accompaniment and so on. The third chapter is the concerts research of "Four Last Songs&Orchestral Songs", it analyzes from five aspects:singing style, speed requirements, strength requirements, the phrase big concert, compares different versions of the concert, it provides some reference for the future in this work of teaching and singing practice.Along with Richard Strauss’s art songs in recent years been more and more onto the stage of the international vocal competitions, in addition to vocal music teaching institutions of the late Romantic repertoire of art songs of the blank, on the composer works of art songs, and research on behalf of the trend has become inevitable, it will be for teaching and performing vocal music of a certain academic value and practical value.