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Richard Strauss was in his element shortly after 1900 when he prepared to portray his now three-member family in a symphonic way: "Bubi" had expanded the cozy togetherness with his wife (and soprano) Pauline into a "trio con brio" since 1897 and the artist marriage was the greatest cheerfully mixed up. The press and the public were shocked: How could you write a symphony about yourself and divulge the most intimate secrets of your married life (musically)! Strauss, however, was convinced, like his great role model Goethe, that an artist fundamentally draws "from the poetic content of his own life" and was not at a loss to acknowledge the premiere of his "Sinfonia domestica" in the New York department store Wanamaker, which had been cleared out especially for this purpose, as " and legitimate earning of a living for wife and child". After the world premiere in March 1904, which the composer conducted himself, Richard Strauss announced with self-satisfaction: "'Domestica' has succeeded for me, sounds great, but is very difficult." High technical playing requirements and a large cast - in his tone poem "Sinfonia domestica," the intimacy of private life becomes a major sound event. Honorary conductor Zubin Mehta and the Munich Philharmonic present opulent late romanticism from the new Isarphilharmonie.