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1. Gustav Mahler

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   A central, if often misunderstood, aspect of Mahler’s symphonic thought is the concept of the Emergent Symphony. Mahler envisioned the symphony not as a set of contrasting movements, but as a single, unbroken narrative arc whose tonal resolution was delayed until the very final bars. He articulated this in a letter to Alma Schindler in 1903: "The goal is not the arrival at $\text{C}$ major, but the absolute necessity of $\text{C}$ major after the preceding $53,000$ milliseconds o…