Tag: Richard Strauss

• In domestic harmony

  March 8, 2020

  Classical music, Orchestral, Tone Poem

  Richard Strauss, Symphonia Domestica

  Strauss’s autobiographical turn of mind continued with the work that followed Ein Heldenleben. Only this time the critic-slaying hero of The Hero’s Life (i.e. Strauss himself) is transformed into a rather cuddly paterfamilias (Richard) replete with fond/nagging wife (Pauline) and yelling/gurgling baby (Franz) plus a few extras in the form of a troupe of aunts…