For 10 points, identify this tone poem by Richard Strauss which portrays among other things the title figure's "Adversaries," "Companion," and "retirement from the world," and according to its title depicts some guy who goes on great quests.
A unison horn theme from the composer's second tone poem effects the transition between the fifth and sixth movements of this work, while in the second movement, the tuba mimics the name "Doktor Dehring." The composer selected the key of E-flat for this work to match Beethoven's Eroica symphony. In the third movement a solo violin carries the theme of the 'Beloved.' The penultimate movement features quotations from the composer's earlier works Guntram and Death and Transfiguration, which are described as "works of peace." Those quotations led this work's detractors to argue that the composer depicted himself as the title figure, and this work's ending recalls the opening of Also Sprach Zarathustra. For 10 points, identify this tone poem by Richard Strauss which portrays among other things the title figure's "Adversaries," "Companion," and "retirement from the world," and according to its title depicts some guy who goes on great quests.
A unison horn theme from the composer's second tone poem effects the transition between the fifth and sixth movements of this work, while in the second movement, the tuba mimics the name "Doktor Dehring.
{Ein Heldenleben} or A {Hero's Life} or A {Heroic Life}