The Hero’s Mission of Peace
This section describes the growth of the hero’s soul. The composer uses thematic material from Don Juan, Also sprach Zarathustra, Tod und Verklärung, Don Quixote, Till Eulenspiegel’s lustige Streiche, Guntram, Macbeth, and his song, “Traum durch die Dämmerung.” Jean Marnold claims that there are twenty-three of these reminiscences, quotations, which Strauss introduces suddenly, or successively, or simultaneously, “and the hearer that has not been warned cannot at the time notice the slightest disturbance in the development. He would not think that all these themes are foreign to the work he hears, and are only souvenirs.”