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Richard Strauss' iconic opening to Also Sprach Zarathustra evokes a sense of vastness and power, Marin Alsop says. Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images. I can't imagine a more stimulating...
Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 (German: [ˈalzo ʃpʁaːx t͡saʁaˈtʊstʁa] ⓘ, Thus Spoke Zarathustra or Thus Spake Zarathustra) is a tone poem by Richard Strauss, composed in 1896 and inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical 1883–1885 novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
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Strauss plotted the compositional flight paths of his earlier tone-poems – Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel, Tod und Verklärung – around explicit narrative markers but in Zarathustra the challenge was to transmute Nietzsche’s abstract, high-minded philosophy into musical specifics: enveloping tonal relationships, notes to be written on the ...
- Who actually is Zarathustra? The historical Zarathustra was probably an Iranian priest and philosopher who taught in the 1st or 2nd millennium BCE. In fact, we know very little about the person and his work: historians and philosophers argue to this day about where exactly Zarathustra was geographically active, in what language he wrote and on what foundations his teachings were based.
- Who is Zarathustra in Nietzsche’s writing? It is therefore all the more astonishing that Friedrich Nietzsche chose this very name for his novel Also sprach Zarathustra as a key testimony to his own aversion to Christianity and his utopia of a ruthless Übermensch.
- Why is Strauss’ work so famous? There is, of course, the prominent use of the first bars in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Previously virtually unknown to the general public, this was the first time the work appeared in a visual medium.
- What makes the opening notes of the work so special? The answer to this is, of course, somewhat subjective. There are two theories: first, there is the orchestration, with brightly solemn tones from the trumpets and powerful beats from the timpani.
By 1898, he had composed Till Eulenspiegel, Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote and Ein Heldenleben. Characteristics. Strauss wrote on a wide range of subjects, some of which had been previously considered unsuitable to be set to music, including literature, legend, philosophy and autobiography.
Jan 13, 2012 · Richard Strauss' iconic opening to Also Sprach Zarathustra evokes a sense of vastness and power, Marin Alsop says. I can't imagine a more stimulating conversation opener than "God is dead." Indeed, this quote by Friedrich Nietzsche sparked heated debate in his time, as it still does today.