Tone poems by this composer include the semi-autobiographical A Hero's Life and one with a really big cello solo, Don Quixote. Two of his symphonies describe single days: one,
Tone poems by this composer include the semi-autobiographical A Hero's Life and one with a really big cello solo, Don Quixote. Two of his symphonies describe single days: one, a day in the life of his household, including bathing the baby; in the other, he depicts a thunderstorm and the view from a mountain peak. In addition to Symphonia Domestica and Alpine Symphony, he depicted death by a squawk on a clarinet in one tone poem and an (*) elegant sigh in another, Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks and Death and Transfiguration. Appropriately, his last major work is his Four Last Songs, and his operas include Intermezzo, Die Frau Ohne Schatten, and Der Rosenkavalier. FTP, name this German composer of the opera Salome and an homage to Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra.
Tone poems by this composer include the semi-autobiographical A Hero's Life and one with a really big cello solo, Don Quixote.
Richard {Strauss}