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

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