Question

In a song by this composer, two trilling flutes represent a pair of larks (0[1])rising into the sky before the soprano asks, “Is this perhaps death?” This composer wrote “IN MEMORIAM” in the score (20[1])above the cellos and double basses quoting the funeral march (20[1])from the Eroica Symphony near the end of a piece scored (20[1])for 23 solo strings. In his (20[1])80s, this composer (20[1])wrote (0[1])“Im Abendrot,” (20[1])the final piece in his Four Last Songs, as (20[1])well as (*) Metamorphosen. (10[6]0[1])A tone poem by this composer (10[1])begins with a motif often called the (10[1])“nature” (10[1])or “world riddle” theme, which consists of the rising notes C G (10[2])C. (10[4])That tone poem (10[1])by this composer (0[1])was inspired (10[1])by a book (10[1])of the same title by Friedrich (10[1])Nietzsche. (10[3])For 10 points, name this German (10[1])composer of Also Sprach Zarathustra. (10[2])■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: Richard Strauss [or Richard Georg Strauss]
<Jonathan Magin, Fine Arts - Music - 1900 to 1970&gt; ~23727~ &lt;Editor: Michael Bentley>
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