 a major and rarely heard chamber work by Richard Strauss now. This was written when he was 19 years old. Sounds quite young, but he was a very seasoned composer, even at that young age, as he was one of the great child prodigies in music history. The year was 1884, and Strauss still very much under the influence of Johannes Brahms and Schumann and Mendelssohn, etc. This is the Piano Quartet.