A synopsis of this piece that ends with a Shankara quote beginning "For the circling world is like a dream" was written by Lawrence Gilman for a 1921 New York Philharmonic performance of it.
A synopsis of this piece that ends with a Shankara quote beginning "For the circling world is like a dream" was written by Lawrence Gilman for a 1921 New York Philharmonic performance of it. This piece's third section requires the second violins to tune down their G strings to G flat during a passage depicting idyllic love. Throughout this piece, two tubas play a recurring motif of parallel fifths. This piece begins with the horns and cellos playing ascending E flat major triads as part of a leitmotif representing the main character. Its second section begins with chattering woodwinds representing the pettiness of carping critics, while its penultimate section, about the title character's "works of peace," quotes a number of the composer's earlier works,including the opera Guntram and Death and Transfiguration. For 10 points, name this tone poem whose title character is often considered to be a self-portrait of the composer, Richard Strauss.
A synopsis of this piece that ends with a Shankara quote beginning "For the circling world is like a dream" was written by Lawrence Gilman for a 1921 New York Philharmonic performance of it.
Ein Heldenleben [or A  Hero's  Life or A Heroic Life]