One ambitious orchestral suite by this composer quotes directly from Wagner to represent salmon from the Rhine during a dinner meal.
One ambitious orchestral suite by this composer quotes directly from Wagner to represent salmon from the Rhine during a dinner meal. This composer, who is not FaurÃ©, wrote incidental music to Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. One orchestral work by this composer uses tremolos and muted brass "mah's" to represent the dust cloud and sheep that belong to King Alifanfaron. That work is for orchestra and cello and depicts ten variations of the title character, who ends up fighting the Knight of the White Moon. This composer of Don Quixote composed a tone poem with a large ratchet in its percussion section. That work opens with a "Once Upon a Time" theme and uses a horn and D clarinet to represent the title folk hero. For 10 points, identify this composer of Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, whose tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra was used in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
One ambitious orchestral suite by this composer quotes directly from Wagner to represent salmon from the Rhine during a dinner meal.
Richard Georg Strauss [prompt on "Strauss"]