Strauss’ piece, however, goes on for another half-hour. Thus Spake Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche and his impressive mustache, photographed in 1882, the year before he began work on Also sprach Zarathustra. Ever since Stanley Kubrick used it to score a cosmic sunrise and the evolution of technology and war in his 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, its iconic opening has become a symbol of bombastic affirmation, used by Elvis Presley as well as countless advertisers and satirists. People won’t understand you.” Strauss’ characteristically humorous remark seems particularly applicable to Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra), one of his best known yet most misunderstood works. According to his novelist friend Romain Rolland, Richard Strauss once quipped that “In music one can say everything.
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