Tag: Symphonia Domestica

• Of men & mountains

  March 16, 2020

  Classical music, Orchestral, Tone Poem

  Richard Strauss, Symphonia Domestica

  Strauss’s last tone-poem, An Alpine Symphony, wasn’t written until 1915 (the composer’s previous essay in the genre, the Symphonia Domestica, was completed back in 1903). There was a reason for this long gestation period (up until the Domestic Symphony the largest gap between symphonic poems had been six years). From 1903 onwards the composer’s focus…