12-19-2016, 04:50 PM
This is quote possibly the greatest first symphony ever written -- and I know about those of Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Ives, Shostakovich, Atterberg, and Simpson... and the one symphony each by Bizet and Franck.
If you hear the fourth movement -- what could be more of a Crisis in music?
Mahler lived only into the early-twentieth-century unraveling, and in view of his origin (Jewish) he would have never lived far past age 80 in Germany or any Nazi-occupied country.
If you hear the fourth movement -- what could be more of a Crisis in music?
Mahler lived only into the early-twentieth-century unraveling, and in view of his origin (Jewish) he would have never lived far past age 80 in Germany or any Nazi-occupied country.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.