(1911) Symphony No.10 in F# – Mahler Foundation

Composed 16-02-1908 New York: Mahler witnesses the funeral of a fireman from his 11th-floor apartment in New York. A single ...

Symphony No. 10 was written in the summer of 1910, and was his final composition. At the time of Mahler's ...

By Lew Smoley ...

275 bars drafted in orchestral and short score. The very opening of the symphony (which is in the key of ...

522 bars drafted in orchestral and short score. The second movement, the first of two brilliant Scherzo movements, consists of ...

170 bars drafted in short score, the first 30 bars of which were also drafted in orchestral score. The Purgatorio ...

About 579 bars drafted in short score. The scene is now set for the peculiarities of the second scherzo, which ...

400 bars drafted in short score. The emotional weight of the symphony is resolved by the long final movement, which ...

Woodwind 1 Bass clarinet Bb. (Cooke) 4 Bassoon. 3 Clarinet A. 3 Clarinet Bb. 1 Clarinet Eb. 2 Contra bassoon. ...