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Work introduction. Sample pages. Press reviews. Here was a composer who had triumphed many times before but who was wondering whether he could truly come up with the goods again. So, while on holiday in the summer of , Mahler wrestled with this barren future, this wasteland of musical ideas.
He simply did not know what to compose next. And then, as he powerfully recalled, "On the threshold of my old workshop, the Spiritus Creator took hold of me and shook me and drove me on for the next eight weeks until my greatest work was done". Within two months, Mahler had composed this mighty choral symphony.
Deutsche Grammophon: See more Mahler News. Lose your ego in the exhortations of hundreds of choristers imploring — from quietest whispers to some of the loudest acoustic music possible — glory. Give yourself to the rapt exultations of brass galore but also a strumming merry mandolin.
That is how Mahler unbelievably ends this most extraordinary symphony of symphonies. Yet for distractors, the Eighth represents spiritual and musical kitsch grossly overblown. On the most obvious level, Mahler raises the question of what the modern symphony even can be.
During the phenomenal first flowering of the genre by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, the symphony evolved, with notable exceptions, into a standard four-movement form subservient to formal musical logic. A dramatic first movement built upon opposing themes subjected to development and reconciliation and reformation was followed by a lyrical slow movement, a dance-based third movement and a boisterous finale. There was plentiful room for fancy and invention.
Rules were made to be broken. Beethoven added weight to the ending and a unifying structure. Mahler, who dedicated his career to writing symphonies and songs and combining the two , went a giant step further. He needed the symphony to encompass the world. To him, it must contain profound expressions of life and, especially, death; of nature and all that lies beyond nature.
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It begins with an E-flat-major power chord on the organ, the bass reinforced by low winds and strings. A double chorus exhorts the Creator, and the near ecstatic soaring begins. Before long ecstasy will be full bore. There are contrasting themes with the opening thematic motive intricately varied and developed. What would be a massive climax, though, for any other composer, is but a step in an unheard-of direction for Mahler.
For close to 25 minutes, he piles ecstasy upon ecstasy, presenting a blinding, deafening, altogether staggering vision that has no match in the symphonic literature.
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