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Transcript Part Two of the Eighth Symphony is Mahler's longest symphonic movement, the length of its texthe closing scene from ...

Cyclical connections with earlier movements that appear in the final movement are more extensive and more subtly integrated into the ...

Transcript The finale often bears the brunt of negative criticism about the Seventh Symphony. Some commentators find it too bombastic, ...

Transcript Mahler wrote elaborate programs for this Symphony long after he had finished it. These programs are posted on our ...

Transcript Mahler's gigantic third Symphony is his paean to pantheism, his great hymn to nature. According to the Mahler's program, ...

Transcript If the extent of negative criticism is any indication, the Seventh Symphony is Mahler's most problematic work. At its ...