Symphony No. 10 Archives

Symphony No. 10 was written in the summer of 1910, and was his final composition. At the time of Mahler's ...

Transcript In its grand design, thematic content and conceptual framework, the first movement of the 10th is a worthy successor ...

Transcript Second movement we'll call scherzo one is one of Mahler's most original scherzo's, intended at first to be a ...

Transcript The so called Purgatorio movement is the shortest of any of Mahler's, purely symphonic movements lasting little more than ...

Transcript On the title page of the sketches for this movement, Mahler again poured out his grief: The Devil dances ...

Transcript Mahler's last symphonic movement, he wrote one of his most beautiful themes, and some of his most stirring soul ...

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Transcript One of the tragedies of Mahler's brilliant career as a composer is that he could not complete what might ...

275 bars drafted in orchestral and short score. The very opening of the symphony (which is in the key of ...

522 bars drafted in orchestral and short score. The second movement, the first of two brilliant Scherzo movements, consists of ...

170 bars drafted in short score, the first 30 bars of which were also drafted in orchestral score. The Purgatorio ...

About 579 bars drafted in short score. The scene is now set for the peculiarities of the second scherzo, which ...

400 bars drafted in short score. The emotional weight of the symphony is resolved by the long final movement, which ...