Richard Strauss Symphonic Poem "Also Sprach Zarathustra Said" Creative Thinking And Her Works

German composer Richard Strauss is one of the most significant composers in the end of romantic period. He produced a series of outstanding symphonic poems from the end of 19th century, which have been parts of the most innovative original works and made him been famous over the world. Music works mostly originate from the stories of remarkable heroes or philosophical works and literatures being full of inspiring dream power with reminiscence.Strauss composed the tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) in 1896, as one of his most distinguished tone poems. This works is based on the philosophical prose poem of the same title by Nietzsche, and as the first tone poem with the same title of a philosophical literature in the music history, Thus Spoke Zarathustra has more special significance than the other works. Though composer didn't describe recondite philosophy system by the means of music, Strauss conveyed the understanding for the world in his eyes by his prominent orchestral music skill and described a delicate and vivid image scene being full of artistic poetry. As a uncommon appreciating works, Thus Spoke Zarathustra presents the artistic poetry of music as well as the profound idea soul of composer.This paper has four general parts: the first part does effort to depict the track of Strauss thoughts development to the mature with dependence of the Strauss growing experiences, as the basis to find idea intension in the works. The second part discusses the development process of Strauss's tone poem, analyses Lizst symphonic poems composing principles and Strauss work's breakthrough and innovation on the basis of Lizst. The most important involved in this part is the formation of Strauss thoughts on philosophy, aesthetics and inevitability of Thus Spoke Zarathustra naissance. The third part of article introduces the reasons of works creation, the background of composing ,the first performance and the analysis of music.The final part draws the conclusions of works and evaluates its influence in historyAccording to the above analysis, author concludes that Thus Spoke Zarathustra is not a common symphonic poem works for entertainment and appreciation, but with deep philosophy thoughts, and it is the mark of Strauss works growing to mature. This works has a rare history value for its broad intrinsic spirit and high creation skills.