Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Op. 30 - 9. Song of the Night Wanderer

Richard Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and earlymodern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems Death and Transfiguration, Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Also sprach Zarathustra, An Alpine Symphony, and other orchestral works, such as Metamorphosen. Strauss was also a prominent conductor throughout Germany and Austria. Strauss, along with Gustav Mahler, represents the late flowering of German Romanticism after Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style. [source from Wikipedia]

There are totally nine sections in this music. The titles come from the original of Nietzsche, except for the first one, Sunrise, which is added by Richard Strauss himself. This music uses the theme similar to the leading motive. The composer recorded on his notebook that it is "the theme of sun". The orchestral tutti and postlude impetuously go back and forth between the major and minor chords to express the mystery of the nature.