Symphony No. 6 Archives

The Symphony No. 6 in A minor by Gustav Mahler, sometimes referred to as the Tragische ("Tragic"), was composed between ...

Transcript In this extensive first movement, which lasts nearly half an hour, Mahler presents the positive characteristics of his hero ...

Transcript It is obvious from the outset that the scherzo movement caricature is the march of the first movement. But ...

Transcript Judging by the atmosphere established at the beginning, it will appear that this movement achieves a perfect state of ...

By Lew Smoley ...

Transcript The Sixth Symphony has long been considered Mahler's most personal expression of fatalism. The three hammer blows originally in ...

The andante provides a respite from the intensity of the rest of the work. Its main theme is an introspective ...

The scherzo marks a return to the unrelenting march rhythms of the first movement, though in a 'triple-time' metrical context ...

The last movement is an extended sonata form, characterized by drastic changes in mood and tempo, the sudden change of ...