Possibly the most adept at musical depiction in his program music was German composer Richard Strauss. His symphonic poems include "Death and Transfiguration" (portraying a dying man and his entry into heaven), "Don Juan" (based on the ancient legend of Don Juan), "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" (based on episodes in the career of the legendary German figure Till Eulenspiegel), "Don Quixote" (portraying episodes in the life of Miguel de Cervantes' character, Don Quixote), "A Hero's Life" (which depicts episodes in the life of an unnamed hero often taken to be Strauss himself) and "Symphonia Domestica" (which portrays episodes in the composer's own married life, including putting the baby to bed). Strauss is reported to have said that music can describe anything, even a teaspoon .