At several points during another of this composer's works, the timpani has a rhythm that alternates between an eighth-note offbeat and two triplet-note offbeats, imitating a heartbeat.
In an E-flat major song by this composer, the flutes play quarter note trills that represent two "dreaming" larks "soaring upward." At several points during another of this composer's works, the timpani has a rhythm that alternates between an eighth-note offbeat and two triplet-note offbeats, imitating a heartbeat. The final Moderato section of that work features theme that, in its first iteration, starts on F, goes up to B-flat, C, D, then up an octave to D, then C. Decades later, this composer quoted that theme towards the end a song inspired by a (*) Joseph von Eichendorff poem. That song, "At Sunset," and settings of three Hesse poems are among this composer's final works and were published posthumously. This composer's friend Alexander Ritter wrote a po em to accompany one of his tone poems about the death of an artist. For ten points, name this composer of Four Last Songs and Death and Transfiguration, as well as Also Sprach Zarathustra.
In an E-flat major song by this composer, the flutes play quarter note trills that represent two "dreaming" larks "soaring upward."
Richard Georg Strauss [prompt on "Strauss"]