This Day In History: The classical music piece, Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss, was first performed on this day in 1896. Most know this piece from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is named after Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical novel of the same name, and as such, this is labelled a tone poem (or Symphonic poem), which is a piece of orchestral music that is based on a poem, story, novel etc. On the list of the 100 Greatest Classical Music Works of all time it is ranked number 66
(https://classicalmusiconly.com/list/100-greatest-classical-music-works-f164de5b)
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