Also sprach Zarathustra
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tone poem by Richard Strauss
Key facts
- Based on
- Nietzsche's philosophical novel
- Composed
- 1896 ( 1896 )
- Duration
- 33 minutes
- Scoring
- Large orchestra
- Date
- 27 November 1896 ( 1896-11-27 )
- Location
- Frankfurt
- Conductor
- Richard Strauss
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Genre
- symphonic poem
- Country of origin
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Based on
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Composer
- Richard Strauss
- Image
- Strauss APZ.jpg
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- catalog code
- TrV 176
- date of first performance
- 1896-11-27
- Commons category
- Also sprach Zarathustra (Strauss)
- instrumentation
- orchestra
- title
- Also sprach Zarathustra
- copyright status
- public domain
- publication date
- 1896-01-01
- opus number
- 30
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Encyclopedic overview
Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 ( German: [ˈalzo ʃpʁaːx t͡saʁaˈtʊstʁa] , Thus Spoke Zarathustra or Thus Spake Zarathustra) is a tone poem by German composer Richard Strauss, composed in 1896 and inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's 1883–1885 philosophical work of the same name. Strauss conducted its first performance on 27 November 1896 in Frankfurt. A typical performance lasts roughly 33 minutes.
The initial fanfare – titled "Sunrise" in the composer's programme notes – became well known after its use in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Eumir Deodato's jazz-funk hit version won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Also sprach Zarathustra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.