This composer's addiction to the German card game skat forced organizers at a Bayreuth festivalto reimburse orchestra players so they would lose money to him.
This composer's addiction to the German card game skat forced organizers at a Bayreuth festivalto reimburse orchestra players so they would lose money to him. His first horn concerto was writtensixty years before his second, and inspired by his father Franz's skill on that instrument. He quoted apassage from the funeral march in Eroica in a piece scored for twenty three solo strings thatmourned the destruction of Germany in (*) World War II. He called for over one hundred players for awork which depicts the ascent of a mountain at night, and used the clarinet and horn to represent the titletrickster of another tone poem. For 10 points, name this composer of Metamorphosen, the Alpine Symphonyand Till Eulenspiegel, who was inspired by a Nietzsche work to write Also Sprach Zarathustra.
This composer's addiction to the German card game skat forced organizers at a Bayreuth festivalto reimburse orchestra players so they would lose money to him.
Richard Georg Strauss [prompt on "Strauss"]