In one work by this composer, the soprano asks, "Is this perhaps death," after which the orchestra quotes from a tone poem that this composer wrote some sixty years earlier.
In one work by this composer, the soprano asks, "Is this perhaps death," after which the orchestra quotes from a tone poem that this composer wrote some sixty years earlier. Those works are the Four Last Songs and Death and Transfiguration. He called for twenty horns in his massive An Alpine Symphony. A horn and a D clarinet play themes representing the title trickster of his Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks. The trumpet motif C-G-C represents a sunrise in one of this man's tone poems, which was used in the "Dawn of Man" sequence in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. For 10 points, name this composer of Also sprach Zarathustra.
In one work by this composer, the soprano asks, "Is this perhaps death," after which the orchestra quotes from a tone poem that this composer wrote some sixty years earlier.
Richard Georg Strauss 