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Article: Gustav Mahler. Facsimile Edition of the Seventh Symphony.
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- March 1, 1996
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In the last few years Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony has been accorded much attention, such that it seems to have shed its previous status as the "Cinderella" of his symphonies, as Deryck Cooke once called it. The subject of two international symposia (Paris, 1989 and Amsterdam, 1993), a collection of essays, and a spate of recent performances and recordings, the Seventh is hardly the unfamiliar work it once was. The publication of this facsimile is further evidence of the interest and esteem granted such a difficult, enigmatic, and powerful work.
This facsimile presents the Seventh Symphony exquisitely. In all respects it becomes, in this publication, larger than ...