Richard Georg Strauss (Munich, June 11, 1864 – Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, September 8, 1949) was a prominent German composer and conductor whose long career spanned from late Romanticism to the first half of the 20th century. He is particularly known for his operas, symphonic poems, and Lieder. Strauss, along with Gustav Mahler, represents the extraordinary late flowering of German Romanticism after Richard Wagner, in which an elaborate and complex development of orchestration was combined with an advanced harmonic style. Strauss's work profoundly influenced the development of 20th-century music.