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- Teil - Hymnus: Veni, creator spiritus
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- Teil - Schlussszene aus „Faust“
Symphony of a Thousand
for | Solists, boys’ choir, mixed choir, orchestra |
Musical Editions | Piano reduction |
Item no. | 124177 |
Author / Composer | Gustav Mahler |
Editor | Karl Heinz Füssl |
Piano score | Josef Venantius von Wöss |
Languages | german, latin |
Scope | 212 pages; 23.2 × 30.5 cm |
Year of origin | 1906 |
Publisher / Producer | Universal Edition |
Producer No. | UE 2660 |
ISBN | 9783702432096 |
ISMN | 9790008017025 |
UPC | 0803452051787 |
Gustav Mahler 's Symphony No. 8 is a work of exceptions. Seen from the outside, this is true of the forces that are used: with its three choirs, eight soloists and an orchestra of far more than onehundred musicians, there are few similar works in the annals of music. This cast of performers determines the second exceptional element of the work, the mix of instrumental and vocal characteristics that makes it to the prototypeof a 'vocal symphony', which - as Mahler put it - 'is sung from beginning to end'. In turn, the texts that are sung influence the structure of the whole, replacing, as it were, the usual four movements of a symphony withtwostrongly divergent 'parts'. And, finally, as if to emphasize this divergence, the texts used - the hymn Veni creator spiritus in the first part and the final scene of Goethe's Faust in the second - are not only written in twolanguages but also separated in their origins by more than one thousand years. Thus it is a work of extremes, and a work of contradiction. It seems, however, that it was exactly these distinctive features that lifted the symphonyabove the others and convinced Mahler that his Symphony No. 8 was 'the greatest' work 'that I have composed'. It is an understandable coincidence that he thus raised Symphony No. 8 to the same rank within hisoeuvre as Goethe, who claimed that the drama was his 'Hauptgeschäft' [main work], did with Faust. Even after composing his late works Mahler retained his belief that Symphony No. 8 was his 'opus summum'. (ChristianWildhagen)
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Mahler - Gesamtausgabe 8
Nach dem Text der Kritischen Gesamtausgabe. Herausgegeben von der Internationalen Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft, Wien
for: Solists, boys’ choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Conductor score
Item no.: 577389
"Symphonie der Tausend"
Mahler - Gesamtausgabe 8
Nach dem Text der Kritischen Gesamtausgabe. Herausgegeben von der Internationalen Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft, Wien
for: Solists, boys’ choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 113106
"Symphony of a Thousand"
Based on the Critical Complete Edition, published by International Gustav Mahler Society, Vienna
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Study score
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Choir score
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for: Solists, boys’ choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir part Soprano
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for: Solists, boys’ choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir part Alto
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for: Solists, boys’ choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir part Bass
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"Symphonie der Tausend"
for: Solists, boys’ choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir part Tenor
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