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Richard Strauss
The piece
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Fun facts
100

The number of instrument classifications that are used in this piece

What are 4 instrument classifications?

100

The birth and death place of Richard strauss

What is Germany?

100

The year the piece was composed in 

What is 1896?

100

The temp in Sunrise

What is Allegro?

100

The older famous movie featuring this piece

what is the movie Wall-E?

200
The types of instrumentation classifications used in this piece

What are Brass, Woodwind, Percussion, and stringed instruments?

200

Richard Strauss' date of birth

What is June 11, 1864?

200

The date of the first performance 

What is November 27, 1896?

200

The temp in this piece

What is no strict temp?

200

The historical event that this piece was used for

What is the Moon Landing of 1969?
300

The type of stringed instruments used in the piece 

What are the Harp, Violin,Viola, Cello, and double bass?

300

The date of death of Richard Strauss

What is September 8, 1949?

300

The length of the performance

What is 33 minutes?

300

The trumpets symbolize

What is the part called sunrise?

300

The newer movie that Also Sprach Zarathustra is in

What is the Barbie movie(2023)?

400

The total number of instruments the piece was orchestrated for 

What is the total of 104 instruments ?

400

The type of family Richard Strauss was born into

What is a musical family?

400

The location of the first performance 

What is Frankfurt, Germany?

400

The piece starts out then evolves into

what is calm then progressively gets dramatic

400

The famous show that parodied this piece

What is the Simpsons?

500

The instruments playing in measure one 

What are the organ, double bass, and cello?

500

The early stages of Richard Strauss' musical career 

Strauss began composing at the age of six

500

The inspiration for Also Sprach Zarathustra

What is Friedrich Nietzsche's 1883–1885 philosophical work ?

500

The number of tempo changes 

what is 9 times?

500

The translation of " Also Sprach Zarathustra"

What is "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"?