Richard Strauss Symphonic Poem "Ein Heldenleben" Harmony Skills

German composer Richard Georg Strauss(1864-1949)was the last outstanding composer of the late romantic period.However,his creation style was not completely influenced by modern techniques in the 20 th century,but continued the music style of late romanticism,which was further developed and innovated.Strauss 'harmony language followed the creation style of liszt,Wagner and others,and continued to innovate along the way of highly chromatic tonality expansion.In his life,he composed seven symphonic poems,each of which is a classic.The symphonic poem Ein Heldenleben(OP.40)is the last symphonic poem written by strauss and the only "autobiographical" symphonic poem written in 1898.This work fully reflects strauss 'exquisite writing technique,and highlights the highly semi-tone and sound technique of the late romantic music,indicating that tonality is gradually disintegrating.This paper is a special study of Richard strauss' s "the life of a hero" and his sound skills.Starting from the creation background,music motivation and individualized harmony language of symphonic poem "the life of a hero",the author analyzes and studies on the basis of the function and sound analysis method of the major and minor tone system.Successively from the personalized chord material alternately,multiple relations and wandering state of tonality,personalized progressions,chromatic chords sound outside the four aspects to explore the way of harmony techniques of personalized,by analyzing the typical PuLi extracts symphonic poem and reasoning,which induces symphonic poem in the hero's career personalized harmony techniques,found its unique language style of harmony.