Richard Strauss, the composer, once declared, "I find myself every bit as interesting as Napoleon or Alexander," and often made himself the subject of his tone poems.
Performer Biography
Zubin Mehta, the conductor on this album, was born in Bombay (modern Mumbai) in 1936 and studied conducting with Hans Swarowsky at Vienna's Academy of Music.
Notable Performances
The world premiere of Sinfonia domestica took place on March 21, 1904, in New York's Carnegie Hall, with Richard Strauss himself conducting the Wetzler Symphony Orchestra.
Composition History
Strauss adopted a "strictly naturalistic approach" for Sinfonia domestica, opening the door to his own domestic world, in contrast to his earlier idealized self-portrait in A Hero's Life.
Composition History
Richard Strauss worked on the Sinfonia domestica, a musical family portrait, at roughly the same time he was composing his pioneering opera Salome, which had a vastly different artistic style.
Compositional Technique
The Sinfonia domestica is formally structured in four interlocking movements and relies on three central themes and their variants, which permeate the entire work.
Compositional Technique
Richard Strauss used specific musical themes to represent himself, his wife Pauline de Ahna, and their son Franz (Bubi) in the Sinfonia domestica.
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