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richard strauss
First & last name of the composer of the following ("Thus Spake Zarathustra")
Trivia about richard strauss
From 1933 to 1935, he served as president of Germany's Reichmusikkammer, or chamber of state music
The German stamp issued on the 50th anniversary of this composer's death depicted his opera "Salome"
After his 1901 opera "Feuersnot" flopped, he found a wild story, "Salome"
He conducted the debut of his "Also Sprach Zarathustra"
His "Elecktra" in 1908 may have been electric, but it was his "Salome" 3 years earlier that was scandalous
"Salome", this composer's first successful opera, was banned in Boston in 1923
In 1940 he was commissioned to write a composition honoring Japan's 2,600th anniversary
He's the German composer of the famous piece heard here, an invocation to the dawn, not a waltz
This composer's tone poem "Thus Spake Zarathustra" has become virtually synonymous with the film
In 1940 he wrote "Japanische Festmusik" as a gesture of friendship between Germany & Japan