For 10 points, name this German composer of Death and Transfiguration and Also sprach Zarathustra.
This composer used text by Robert Lubahn for his Olympic Hymn for chorus and orchestra, and he used a brass fanfare to represent a difficult mountain climb in his Alpine Symphony. This composer also wrote a tone poem that ends with the execution of the title trickster, Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks. Another of his tone poems contains the sections "Of the Backworldsmen" and "Song of the Night Wanderer," and takes its title from a (*) Nietzsche work named for a Persian prophet. For 10 points, name this German composer of Death and Transfiguration and Also sprach Zarathustra.
This composer used text by Robert Lubahn for his Olympic Hymn for chorus and orchestra, and he used a brass fanfare to represent a difficult mountain climb in his Alpine Symphony.
{Richard Strauss} [prompt on Strauss]