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“Strange enough Mahler took note of me immediately; not only because of my face, which could be called beautiful at the time, but also because of my sharp, tense manner. He looked at me through his glasses long and searchingly.” Alma Mahler, on her first encounter with Gustav If you have only heard one piece... Continue Reading →
“Mahler’s marches are like heart attacks, his chorales like all christendom gone mad … Mahler is German music multiplied by N” Leonard Bernstein on Mahler “The Scherzo is a devil of a movement…” Mahler on the third movement of the Fifth Symphony Mahler still has one foot in the 19th century, and in musical classicism.... Continue Reading →
“The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.” Gustav Mahler The second movement of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony is marked “Stürmisch bewegt, mit größter Vehemenz” (Turbulently Rough, With Greatest Vehemence). Where the first movement Funeral March expressed mourning, despair and anguish, this second movement gives... Continue Reading →
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