Thursday 29 November 20.00 h
Friday 30 November 20.00 h
Conductor ALVARO ALBIACH
Symphony no. 9 in D major, G. Mahler
1.20 h (w/out intermission)
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At the end of the 19th century, under the stimulus of new literary and aesthetic trends the romantic tradition in music was transformed with the appearance of a series irrational, decadent or mystical elements that entailed a revision of its poetics and language. That is where we find Gustav Mahler, who in many aspects represents the profound exhaustion of the culture of romanticism and at the same time becomes a turning point and benchmark for a large number of Viennese musicians, sensitive to the modernist fervor at the end of the 19th century. He was forty-nine years old when he composed his Symphony no. 9 in D major in the Italian city of Dobbiaco during the summer of 1909. After reading the score, the serialist composer Alban Berg wrote: "This is the most extraordinary thing Mahler has written. I see in him the expression of any exceptional love for this land, the desire to live in peace, to fully enjoy nature’s resources before being surprised by death". It was premiered on the 26th of June 1912 in Vienna by its Philharmonic Orchestra with Bruno Walter as conductor.
Thursday 29 November 20.00 h
Friday 30 November 20.00 h
