In an unpublished diary entry about this peace, the composer wrote that Judaism, Christianity, and metaphysics were unproductive and that this piece would represent liberation from them.
In an unpublished diary entry about this peace, the composer wrote that Judaism, Christianity, and metaphysics were unproductive and that this piece would represent liberation from them. A recording of this piece by the Berlin Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan was the first compact disc ever pressed. This piece opens with a descending B-flat minor scale on the bassoon that's gradually echoed and held by the strings until every note of the scale is held simultaneously. Hunting horns play a distant fanfare offstage just before the fourth section, "Entry into the Forest," which precedes such sections as "At the Waterfall," and "On Flowering Meadows." This work calls for a wind machine and a total of 20 horns, and thunder sheets are used to depict a violent storm in section 19, "The Descent." It's not Ein Heldenleben, but the composer's earlier work Also Sprach Zarathustra is referenced in the section "On the Summit." FTP, name this last symphonic poem of Richard Strauss, which depicts the climb of and descent from a mountain.
In an unpublished diary entry about this peace, the composer wrote that Judaism, Christianity, and metaphysics were unproductive and that this piece would represent liberation from them.
An Alpine Symphony [or Eine Alpensinfonie] 