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Formats and Editions
1. Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), Op. 40, Trv 190: Der Held (The Hero) - Des Helden Widersacher (The Hero's Enemies) - De
2. Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), Op. 40, Trv 190: Des Helden Walstatt (The Hero's Field Of Battle) - Des Helden Friedens
3. Capriccio, Op. 85: String Sextet, Trv 279a (Version For String Orchestra)
More Info:
Autobiographical in content, Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben is one of a series of tone-poems, including, Also Sprach Zarathustra (Naxos 8.571215), in which he explored the utmost limits of extra-musical content in this form. The hero passes through love and adversity, confrontation, triumph in battle and fulfilment in a single, powerfully descriptive symphonic span. Gerard Schwarz's Ein Heldenleben has been acclaimed as "exciting and inspired" (Gramophone). The opera Capriccio is a romantic struggle to choose between words and music which opens with a gloriously bitter-sweet string sextet.
