Gustav Mahler SYMPHONY NO. 9

La SINFONIA N. 9 IN RE MAGGIORE di Gustav Mahler, composta fra il 1909 ed il 1910, è suddivisa nei tradizionali quattro movimenti ed è l'ultima sinfonia che Mahler riuscì a terminare, dato che il lavoro sulla successiva _decima sinfonia_ fu interrotto dalla morte del compositore boemo. ------------------------- SYMPHONY NO. 9 Theodor Adorno saw in Mahler 'the first composer since Beethoven to have a '"late style"', a statement that may perhaps explain why a majority of commentators still believe that, in writing his Ninth Symphony, Mahler in 1909 was gravely ill and haunted by the spectre of his impending death. In fact, he was then forty-nine years old and more active... (Read complete news)