Timothy Jackson argued this man's quotation of the funeral march from the Eroica Symphony is areference to Beethoven's original dedication of that piece to Napoleon.
Timothy Jackson argued this man's quotation of the funeral march from the Eroica Symphony is areference to Beethoven's original dedication of that piece to Napoleon. The premiere of another pieceby him was accompanied with thousands of white pigeons. He was fired from a post he held for aletter sent to a frequent collaborator that said "For me there are only two kinds of people, those withtalent and those with none," but this man still composed the (*) Olympic Hymn when his country hostedthe game two years later. The Nazis attacked this man for writing an opera based on a play by thequestionably Jewish Ben Jonson, and the librettist for Die Schweigsame Frau was Stefan Zweig. For 10points, name this composer of Metamorphosen who worked with Hugo von Hofmannthal on operas likeElektra and Der Rosenkavalier.
Timothy Jackson argued this man's quotation of the funeral march from the Eroica Symphony is areference to Beethoven's original dedication of that piece to Napoleon.
Richard Strauss