MUS 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Berlin Philharmonic, Hamburg State Opera, Ludwig Achim Von Arnim
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Premiered december 13, 1985 by berlin philharmonic, mahler conducting. Originally a stand-alone orchestral work called totenfeier (funeral rites) Expanded version of st. anthony of padua"s sermon to the fish, from des knaben. Mahler was the first to incorporate entire songs into symphones. After the opening scream" the movement has 10 episodes". By 1893, the second, third, and fourth movements were completed. In 1894, mahler attended the funeral of hans von bulow (hamburg opera conductor) There, mahler heard the choir sing auferstehen (resurrection), a poem by. This poem was then expanded (significantly) by mahler and used as the basis for the finale. Authors and collectors who compiled des knaben wunderhorn. Tells the musicians when to come in. Mahler made a living mainly as a conductor. Composers also noted as conductors : mendelssohn, berlioz, wagner, mahler. The large orchestral forces of mid-to-late nineteenth-century romanticism make having a conductor a necessity.
