Stirring and spiritual
Mar 28, 2021
1 minute
by ELIZABETH KERR
he handwritten score of Gustav Mahler’s , known as the , fetched £4.5 million at Sotheby’s in London a few years ago, setting a record for a musical manuscript sold at auction. The composition was voted the in 2018. American composer Aaron Copland declared as early as 1925 that the masterpiece, completed in 1894, was 30 years ahead of its time.
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