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Ein Heldenleben
''Ein Heldenleben'' (''A Hero's Life''), Op. 40 is a tone poem by Richard Strauss. The work was completed in 1898. It was his sixth work in the genre, and exceeded any of its predecessors in its orchestral demands. Generally agreed to be autobiographical in tone, despite contradictory statements on the matter by the composer, the work contains more than thirty quotations from Strauss's earlier works.
==Background==
Strauss began work on the piece while staying in a Bavarian mountain resort in July 1898. He proposed to write a heroic work in the mould of Beethoven's ''Eroica'' Symphony: "It is entitled ‘A Hero’s Life,’ and while it has no funeral march, it does have lots of horns, horns being quite the thing to express heroism. Thanks to the healthy country air, my sketch has progressed well and I hope to finish by New Year's Day."〔Glass, Herbert. ("Ein Heldenleben" ), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, accessed 6 September 2013〕
Strauss worked on ''Ein Heldenleben'' and another tone poem, ''Don Quixote'' during 1898. He regarded the two as complementary, saying they were conceived as "direct pendants" to one another.〔Youmans, p. 81〕 There was speculation before the premiere about the identity of the hero. Strauss was equivocal: he commented "I'm no hero: I'm not made for battle",〔Kennedy, Michael, "Ein Heldenleben", notes to Chandos CD Chan 8518 (1987)〕 and in a programme note he wrote that subject of the piece was "not a single poetical or historical figure, but rather a more general and free ideal of great and manly heroism."〔Freed, Richard. ("Ein Heldenleben, Op 40" ), The Kennedy Center, accessed 6 September 2013〕 On the other hand, in the words of the critic Richard Freed:
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