Dudamel conducts Mahler's 9th

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Last Modified: May 14, 2012

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Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

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Mahler: Symphony No. 9 Program Notes

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Harboring the suspicion that there was a curse on composers who wrote a ninth symphony (Beethoven and Schubert were two that had died before their tenths were completed), Mahler attempted to sidestep the threat by not calling his ninth symphonic work a symphony at all. (This was his orchestral song cycle The Song of the Earth.) Only then did he feel safe to compose a ninth symphony, because it was “really” his tenth. Nonetheless, the curse struck again: Mahler died before he could finish No. 10.

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