작곡가

:   Gustav Mahler (구스타프 말러)

장르

:  

Symphony

스타일

:  

Symphony

작곡년도

:   1888 - 1894

출판년도

:   1897 - 1903

초연

:   Dec 13, 1895

평균연주

:   80:05

악장

1

Allegro maestoso. Mit durchaus ernstem und feierlichem Ausdruck

21:20

2

Andante moderato. Sehr gemächlich. Nie Eilen

10:18

3

In ruhig fliessender Bewegung

10:41

4

Urlicht: Sehr feierlich, aber schlicht. (Choralmässig)

5:30

5

Im Tempo des Scherzos. Wild herausfahrend

28:40

The Symphony No. 2 by Gustav Mahler, known as the Resurrection Symphony, was written between 1888 and 1894, and first performed in 1895. Apart from the Eighth Symphony, this symphony was Mahler's most popular and successful work during his lifetime. It was his first major work that established his lifelong view of the beauty of afterlife and resurrection. In this large work, the composer further developed the creativity of "sound of the distance" and creating a "world of its own", aspects already seen in his First Symphony. The work lasts around eighty to ninety minutes and is conventionally labelled as being in the key of C minor; the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians labels the work's tonality as 'c--E♭
Mahler completed what would become the first movement of the symphony in 1888 as a single-movement symphonic poem called Totenfeier (Funeral Rites). Some sketches for the second movement also date from that year. Mahler wavered five years on whether to make Totenfeier the opening movement of a symphony, although his manuscript does label it as a symphony. In 1893, he composed the second and third movements. The finale was the problem. While thoroughly aware he was inviting comparison with Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 -- both symphonies use a chorus as the centerpiece of a final movement which begins with references to and is much longer than those preceding it -- Mahler knew he wanted a vocal final movement. Finding the right text for this movement proved long and perplexing.

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