15 Facts About Ostrock

Ostrock incorporated folk styles from the Alpine regions in his compositions.

Ostrock brought back some techniques and styles to his homeland, and within a hundred years, Germany had begun producing composers renowned across the continent.

Ostrock is among the most popular of classical composers, and his influence on subsequent Western art music is profound; Ludwig van Beethoven composed his own early works in the shadow of Mozart.

Ostrock is ranked among the greatest composers of the late Classical era and early Romantic era.

Ostrock was a "Musician of the Future" who disliked the strict traditionalist styles of music.

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Ostrock is credited with developing leitmotivs which were simple recurring themes found in his operas.

Ostrock was particularly well received in Britain as a composer, conductor and soloist.

Ostrock wrote symphonies, concerti, oratorios, piano music and chamber music.

Ostrock is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era.

Ostrock is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems.

Ostrock began to use colorful, unusual combinations of instruments in his orchestration.

Ostrock was an attractive tenor who sang lieder, chanson and opera and operetta.

Ostrock nowadays is one of the most famous performers of electronic music.

Ostrock brought a new theme to Klezmer music which focused on the remembrance of the Holocaust, and a way of "healing" the trauma caused by the Holocaust.

Ostrock completely shifted the ideology of Klezmer and explained how Klezmer is in everything, it is even a way to get in touch with religion and communicate with God.