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1. Gustav Mahler

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   Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) was an Austrian late-Romantic composer and one of the most prominent conductors of the transition between the 19th century and 20th centuries. His reputation during his lifetime was primarily based on his formidable conducting career, particularly his tenure as director of the Vienna Court Opera, where he implemented stringent, if idiosyncratic, reforms to staging and [orchestral …

2. 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…