This composer wanted the Wagnerian soprano Kirsten Flagstad to premiere a set of songs which were collected posthumously by his friend Ernst Roth.
This composer wanted the Wagnerian soprano Kirsten Flagstad to premiere a set of songs which were collected posthumously by his friend Ernst Roth. One of those four songs about death by this composer is based on Joseph von Eichendorff's poem "Im Abendrot" (ihm AH-bend-roht). This composer wrote an Olympic Hymn for the Berlin Olympics in 1936. A piece by this composer uses the D clarinet to depict the title (*) trickster walking to the gallows before a squawk indicates his death. He used an unresolved high B chord to end the "Song of the Night Wanderer" section of one of his works. The notes C - G - C open the "Sunrise" movement of that work by this composer of Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks. 2001: A Space Odyssey features, for 10 points, what composer's Also Sprach Zarathustra?
This composer wanted the Wagnerian soprano Kirsten Flagstad to premiere a set of songs which were collected posthumously by his friend Ernst Roth.
Richard Strauss (ree-kard strowss)