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The Hero's Adversaries are musical depictions of how Strauss viewed other composers of his day, namely [[Mahler]] and [[Sibelius]], and various music critics. It begins with "spiky" woodwinds which seem to mimic Sibelius. The anti-Strauss [[Viennese]] music critic Doktor Dehring, a pedantic critic who could not abide breaking the rules of harmony, is outlined in a recurring [[leitmotif]] by tenor and base tuba which seem simultaneously ominous and brain-dead. Doktor Dehring's name is announced using parallel fifths - a deliberate harmonic mistake.  

The Hero's Adversaries are musical depictions of how Strauss viewed other composers of his day, namely [[Mahler]] and [[Sibelius]], and various music critics. It begins with "spiky" woodwinds which seem to mimic Sibelius. The anti-Strauss [[Viennese]] music critic Doktor Dehring, a pedantic critic who could not abide breaking the rules of harmony, is outlined in a recurring [[leitmotif]] by tenor and base tuba which seem simultaneously ominous and brain-dead. Doktor Dehring's name is announced using parallel fifths - a deliberate harmonic mistake.  

By mocking his chief critic, Strauss emulates [[Richard Wagner]], who responded to the persistent music critic Edward Hanslick by writing in the villainous character [[Beckmesser]] in ''[[Die Meistersinger]]''. Together, the woodwinds and brass make a chorus of mean-spirited sniping. Strauss enters on bassoons, bass clarinet, contrabassoon, horns, and low strings, slowly surveying his enemies.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsL8v7WtXx0 The Hero's Advcersaries, Wihelm Mengelberg, Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam].</ref> Squabbling continues, until Strauss declares a brief victory and his wife enters on solo First violin to begin the next section.

By mocking his chief critic, Strauss emulates [[Richard Wagner]], who responded to the persistent music critic Edward Hanslick by writing in the villainous character [[Beckmesser]] in ''[[Die Meistersinger]]''. Together, the woodwinds and brass make a chorus of mean-spirited sniping. Strauss enters on bassoons, bass clarinet, contrabassoon, horns, and low strings, slowly surveying his enemies.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsL8v7WtXx0 The Hero's Advcersaries, Willem Mengelberg, Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam].</ref> Squabbling continues, until Strauss declares a brief victory and his wife enters on solo First violin to begin the next section.

===The Hero's Companion===

===The Hero's Companion===