A domestic postscript from Richard Strauss

Podcast: Composers Datebook · American Public Media

Opublikowano: 2026-10-16

Synopsis Of all the works of Richard Strauss, the one that premiered in Dresden on today’s date in 1925 ranks amount the least-known. For starters, it has an odd title, Parergon to the Symphonia Domestica. “Parergon” means “an ornamental accessory or embellishment,” and he meant his new work, written for piano left-hand and orchestra, as a follow-up to his Symphonia Domestica tone-poem of 1903, which depicted one day in the Strauss family household, complete with baby’s bath. The baby in question was his son Franz, who by 1925 was a young man setting...