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The Music => Composers & Music => Topic started by: gprengel on Thursday 07 November 2024, 13:41

Title: Gustav Mahler - an amazing hardly known draft for a symphonic Scherzo in c-minor
Post by: gprengel on Thursday 07 November 2024, 13:41
Hi, in the last 2 weeks I had the joy to find an uncompleted draft by Mahler for a Scherzo in c-minor - of course I could not resist and made an attempt to complete it - what do you think?

https://youtu.be/DbMBdo8odVU?si=g1JInH9h2GTkiS3G

Gerd
Title: Re: Gustav Mahler - an amazing hardly known draft for a symphonic Scherzo in c-minor
Post by: Alan Howe on Thursday 07 November 2024, 17:58
Could you supply more information about this manuscript, please?
Title: Re: Gustav Mahler - an amazing hardly known draft for a symphonic Scherzo in c-minor
Post by: gprengel on Thursday 07 November 2024, 18:27
Quote from: Alan Howe on Thursday 07 November 2024, 17:58Could you supply more information about this manuscript, please?
See https://symposium.music.org/24/item/1964-mahlers-sketches-for-a-scherzo-in-c-minor-and-a-presto-in-f-major.html
Title: Re: Gustav Mahler - an amazing hardly known draft for a symphonic Scherzo in c-minor
Post by: Mark Thomas on Thursday 07 November 2024, 19:43
A fascinating article. Thanks, Gerd.
Title: Re: Gustav Mahler - an amazing hardly known draft for a symphonic Scherzo in c-minor
Post by: Alan Howe on Thursday 07 November 2024, 20:13
Many thanks for this information. I note that the commentary is 40 years old. Has there been any subsequent literature on the subject and, if so, where can it be consulted? And have there been any earlier attempts at completion?

Here's the score: https://imslp.org/wiki/Scherzo_in_C_minor_(Mahler%2C_Gustav)
Title: Re: Gustav Mahler - an amazing hardly known draft for a symphonic Scherzo in c-minor
Post by: Alan Howe on Thursday 07 November 2024, 22:57
...to answer my own question, I've found this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhpfyQhb0qg
Title: Re: Gustav Mahler - an amazing hardly known draft for a symphonic Scherzo in c-minor
Post by: gprengel on Thursday 07 November 2024, 23:06
Yes, by this I video I first read of this draft 2 weeks ago. But this does not really sound well to my ears, so I tried to do my own orchestration... I have no idea, why this draft is so ignored - especially now when Mahler has become so popular in the recent decades...