One work by this composer
One work by this composer, which he instructed the orchestra to play "in the old-style roguish manner", is based on the peasant folk hero Till Eulenspiegel (OY-len-spee-gull). After basing several works on literary characters, he wrote a work for which he stated that the audience only needed to know that there was a hero fighting his enemies. That symphonic poem, Ein Heldenleben, followed Don Juan, Macbeth, and Don Quixote. A popular work by this com- poser, which opens with Sunrise, is based on a work by Friedrich Nietzsche (NEET-chuh) and was used in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Name this composer of Also Sprach Zarathustra.
One work by this composer, which he instructed the orchestra to play "in the old-style roguish manner", is based on the peasant folk hero Till Eulenspiegel (OY-len-spee-gull).
{Richard} Georg {Strauss} [prompt on {Strauss}]