In addition to the Symphonia Domestica and (*)Metamorphosen, this composer also portrayed the last minutes of an old artist in his Death and Transfiguration and used horns and clarinets to depict the titular Germanic trickster in another work.
After hearing a serenade this composer wrote as a teenager, Hans von Bülow commissioned him to write his Suite for 13 Winds for the Meiningen orchestra, which he would later conduct. He used a glockenspiel to represent a clock strike in a work depicting family activities. Another work is scored for 23 strings and relies heavily on the funeral march from Beethoven's Eroica Symphony. In addition to the Symphonia Domestica and (*)Metamorphosen, this composer also portrayed the last minutes of an old artist in his Death and Transfiguration and used horns and clarinets to depict the titular Germanic trickster in another work. The "Sunrise" fanfare opens up his tone poem that was used in the opening scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey. For 10 points, name this German composer of the tone poems Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks and Also Sprach Zarathustra.
After hearing a serenade this composer wrote as a teenager, Hans von Bülow commissioned him to write his Suite for 13 Winds for the Meiningen orchestra, which he would later conduct.
{Richard Strauss} [prompt on {Strauss} ]