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Symphony No. 8: Symphony of a Thousand

by Gustav Mahler

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Mahler’s Vast Choral Symphony in Full Score

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Mahler’s Vast Choral Symphony in Full Score

Mahler’s Eighth Symphony brings together forces on an exceptional scale: orchestra, organ, eight solo voices, double chorus, and boys’ choir. Its two-part design joins the medieval Latin hymn “Veni, Creator Spiritus” with the closing scene of Goethe’s Faust, placing sacred text and dramatic literature within one large symphonic conception. This Dover paperback presents the complete score in a conveniently sized format, making the work’s extensive vocal and instrumental writing available for study alongside performance preparation. The edition centers a major work of the classical choral-orchestral repertoire and its unusual combination of symphonic, choral, and literary materials.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Conductors, singers, and instrumentalists studying Mahler’s Eighth
  • Music students examining large-scale choral-orchestral scoring
  • Classical-score collectors interested in Mahler and Goethe settings

Themes

Choral-orchestral musicSymphonic formSacred Latin textGoethe’s FaustLarge ensemble scoring

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Book overview

Widely regarded as the crowning achievement of his career, Mahler's Symphony No. 8 received overwhelming recognition at its first performance, conducted by the composer in Munich on September 12, 1910.
A massive, complex work that integrates on a truly grand scale the musical ideas, forms, and media that dominated Mahler's creative life, the symphony -- in two great sections -- is scored for orchestra, eight solo voices, double chorus, boys' choir, and organ, with the words for the first section taken from the medieval Latin hymn "Veni, Creator Spiritus." The text of the second part is from the final scene of Goethe's Faust.
Students, performers, and all lovers of Mahler's monumental orchestral works will welcome the addition of this fine, conveniently sized edition to their library of great scores.

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