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Mahler – Symphony No. 9 – Full Score

• Publisher: Dover
• Composer: Gustav Mahler
• Format: Softcover
• Length: 192 p.

• Mahler inherited the romantic conception of music as an expression of a quest for spiritual reality … he expressed a four-sided conflict between a devouring love of life, a spiritual need, a skeptical intellect, and an existential dread of ultimate meaninglessness. — Encyclopaedia Britannica.

  In this great work, Mahler experimented with the four-movement symphonic form, producing a masterpiece of musical innovation, satiric writing, and poetic drama expressed in purely instrumental terms. Alban Berg referred to the first movement of the Ninth Symphony as the most glorious [Mahler] ever wrote, and further observed, the whole movement is based on a premonition of death which constantly recurs … that is why the tenderest passages are followed by tremendous climaxes like new eruptions of a volcano.

  Now the full orchestral score of the Ninth Symphony is available in the inexpensive, high-quality edition, reprinted from an authoritative Viennese score. Music lovers and admirers of Mahler s work will find in these pages abundant evidence of the fresh and formidable thinking the composer brought to this monumental composition.