3. EIN HELDENLEBEN

5. The Hero

7. The Hero’s Critics

9. The Scholars

11. The Hero is saddened by the fact that he is not accepted

13. The critic and the scholars

15. He shuns his critics upon seeing:

16. The Hero’s partner (Pauline Strauss, his wife)

17. She is a woman of many moods.

18. Hypocritically languishing

19. Frivolous

20. Sweet, sentimental

21. Insolent

22. Playful

23. Lovable

24. More and more angry

25. Suddenly filled with warmth.

26. Angry

27. Scolding

28. Tender and loving

29. She submits to him completely

31. They gradually fall asleep

32. The Hero’s nightmare-- even in his sleep, the critics haunt him

33. A call to battle

34. The Hero arises

35. His gentle wife persuades him to remain in the reverie of slumber

36. The call to battle, even closer

37. The Hero cannot ignore this time, and with his wife at his side prepares to do battle.

38. The Battle begins--the Hero and his wife against his critics and foes.

40. Victory!

41. The Hero and his wife emerge victorious

43. The Hero’s works of peace

45. Two themes from Strauss’ Don Juan

46. The scholars are not impressed

47. Hero’s theme from Ein Heldenleben

48. Theme from Strauss” Death and Transfiguration

49. Theme from Strauss’ Don Quixote

50. Don Quixote (Sancho Panza) and Don Juan together (an odd pairing…)

51. Theme from Strauss Till Eugenspiegel

53. Death and Transfiguration and Strauss’ Thus Spake Zarathustra together

54. Love music from Strauss’ Don Quixote

55. Death and Transfiguration

56. Thus Spake Zarathustra

58. Still, the scholars shake their heads disapprovingly

59. The Hero breaks into a rage

60. Pastoral sounds in the English horns:

61. Perhaps the Hero is leaving for a more peaceful existence

63. Epilogue: The Hero and his helpmate escape from the world.

65. The critics rear their ugly heads one last time

66. The Hero tries to cast their weight from his shoulders

67. The Hero’s helpmate comforts and reassures him

68. The Hero (French horn) and his helpmate (solo violin) in a touching duet