작곡가

:   Gustav Mahler (구스타프 말러)

장르

:  

Symphony

스타일

:  

Symphony

작곡년도

:   1904 - 1905

출판년도

:   1909

초연

:   Sep 19, 1908

평균연주

:   77:52

악장

1

Langsam (Adagio) - Allegro con fuoco

21:10

2

Nachtmusik. Allegro moderato

15:32

3

Scherzo. Schattenhaft, fließend, aber nicht schnell

9:48

4

Nachtmusik. Andante amoroso

13:51

5

Rondo - Finale. Allegro ordinario

17:47

Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony was written in 1904–05, with repeated revisions to the scoring. It is sometimes referred to by the title Song of the Night (German: Lied der Nacht), though this title was not Mahler's own and he disapproved of it. Although the symphony is often described as being in the key of E minor, its tonal scheme is more complicated. The symphony's first movement moves from B minor (introduction) to E minor, and the work ends with a Rondo-Finale in C major. Thus, as Dika Newlin has pointed out, "in this symphony Mahler returns to the ideal of 'progressive tonality' which he had abandoned in the Sixth". The complexity of the work's tonal scheme was analysed in terms of 'interlocking structures' by Graham George.
In 1904, Mahler was enjoying great international success as a conductor, but he was also, at last, beginning to enjoy international success as a composer. His second daughter was born that June, and during his customary summer break away from Vienna in his lakeside retreat at Maiernigg in the Carinthian Mountains, he finished the Sixth Symphony and sketched the second and fourth movements (the two Nachtmusik movements) for the Seventh Symphony while mapping out much of the rest of the work. He then worked on the Seventh intensively the following summer, claiming to take just four weeks to complete the first, third and fifth movements.

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