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The tone poems of Richard Strauss are noted as the high point of program music in the latter part of the 19th century, extending its boundaries and taking the concept of realism in music to an unprecedented level.
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.
Feb 19, 2024 · The German composer Richard Strauss’s late Romantic/early modern work is where the tone poem peaked, according to many. A virtuoso orchestrator, Strauss possessed an incredible ability to depict things through music, once famously boasting that he could describe a knife and fork via sound.
Alsop Sprach Zarathustra: Decoding Strauss' Tone Poem. Richard Strauss' iconic opening to Also Sprach Zarathustra evokes a sense of vastness and power, Marin Alsop says. I can't imagine a...
Jun 9, 2020 · What Shakespeare was to the sonnet, Richard Strauss was the tone poem. Pioneered by Franz Liszt in the mid-1800s, tone poems took the then-groundbreaking step of tying music to an extra-musical source—usually, a poem, novel, painting, or landscape—allowing music to “tell the story.”
Richard Strauss - Complete Tone Poems & Concertos (13 Components) Various Artists • Album. Play all. Shuffle.