Also sprach Zarathustra

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Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus spake Zoroaster). Tone-poem by Richard Strauss, Op.30, comp. 1895–6 and f.p. Frankfurt 1896. Freely based on Nietzsche's epic prose poem of same name. Delius set 11 sections of poem in his Mass of Life.

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