Music Set #270 - Richard Strauss - Zarathustra

Richard Georg Strauss  - top tracks
(1864 – 1949)

Also sprach Zarathustra / aka "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
* It is a tone poem, inspired by Nietzsche (尼采)'s philosophical treatise with the same name, in which Zarathustra is the main character.
* Strauss' music piece is divided into 9 sections, named after selected chapters of the book.

"Sunrise", the first section, is the initial fanfare that became particularly well known to the general public due to its use in 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

In the movie, a supercomputer on a space station accumulated sufficient intelligence to disobey and overpower astronauts. Its name was HAL, each letter of which comes before IBM.

HAL