Symphony No. 9 in Full Score

by Gustav Mahler

Book Overview

"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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486274926
• ISBN13: 9780486274928
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 11.0"