Written in an apparently happy period of his life, Mahler’s “Tragic Symphony” is often described in the exact opposite of terms: nihilistic, dark, foreboding. The tender slow movement aside, it “ends in hopelessness and the dark night of the soul” with its infamous hammer blows.

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Of all his works this was the most personal… We were both in tears… so deeply did we feel this music and the sinister premonitions it disclosed.

Alma Mahler