Mahler Foundation

Mahler Symphony No. 10 - Intro - Listening Guide


Listen Later

Symphony No. 10 was written in the summer of 1910, and was his final composition. At the time of Mahler’s death the composition was substantially complete in the form of a continuous draft; but not being fully elaborated at every point, and mostly not orchestrated, it was not performable in that state. Only the first movement is regarded as reasonably complete and performable as Mahler intended. Perhaps as a reflection of the inner turmoil he was dealing with at the time (Mahler knew he had a failing heart and his wife had committed infidelity), the 10th Symphony is arguably his most musically dissonant work.

Mahler started his work on his Tenth Symphony 07-1910 in Toblach, and ended his efforts in September the same year. He never managed to complete the orchestral draft before his premature death at the age of fifty from a streptococcal infection of the blood.

---

A listening guide of Symphony No. 10 - Intro with Lew Smoley

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Mahler FoundationBy Mahler Foundation

  • 5
  • 5
  • 5
  • 5
  • 5

5

7 ratings


More shows like Mahler Foundation

View all
Pod Save America by Crooked Media

Pod Save America

86,508 Listeners

The Daily by The New York Times

The Daily

110,824 Listeners

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast by Joshua Weilerstein

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

2,096 Listeners