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Music Analysis, 23/i (2004) à Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2005. Published by Blackwell Publishing, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK NICHOLAS BARAGWANATH for as long as he can. He wants to create for himself a home, far away from all troubles, in the free and thin air of Semmering, to drink this air, this purest earthly air with deeper and deeper breaths ± deeper and deeper breaths [Fig. 1 Mahler, Symphony No. 9, first movement, horns bars 443±53] so that the heart, this most wonderful heart ever to have beaten among men, widens ± widens more and more ± before it must stop beating.4 Berg's account is by no means simply an isolated, individual response to the work. Many similar interpretations, sharing common themes of farewell to life, and of death and transfiguration, were published following the premiere. Constantin Floros has identified seventeen such reviews in Austrian newspapers and journals alone.5 In addition, Mahler's hand-written comments in the orchestral draft,6 which were not included in the published score, offer evidence in support of these readings. Floros suggests that Berg was aware of Mahler's inscriptions while writing his `programme', having received the orchestral draft of the first three movements
Music Analysis – Wiley
Published: Mar 1, 2004
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