Richard Strauss' iconic opening to Also Sprach Zarathustra evokes a sense of vastness and power, Marin Alsop says. I can't imagine a more stimulating conversation opener than "God is dead." Indeed, ...

Tom Service explores the cosmic tone poem Also Sprach Zarathustra, composed by Richard Strauss, inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche, and made famous (partly) by Stanley Kubrick. Show more Made famous by ...

Also Sprach Zarathustra is one of the most famous pieces of classical music repeatedly used in film, with many phenomenal movie scenes getting amazing use out of the piece. Also Sprach Zarathustra is ...

Friedrich Nietzsche’s infamously dense philosophical novel Also Sprach Zarathustra was modestly described by its author as (in Walter Kaufmann’s 1966 translation): “the greatest present that has ever ...

Strauss’s tone-poem may have been hijacked by the movies but there’s far more to the score than that famous sunrise, argues Philip Clark, as he seeks the finest recording Old impulses prove impossible ...

I can't imagine a more stimulating conversation opener than "God is dead." Indeed, this quote by Friedrich Nietzsche sparked heated debate in his time, as it still does today. But how many of us know ...