The evaluation of Mahler's Ninth Symphony
Mahler, in the first and last two movements, has made a great deal of effort. It is the focus of the whole work. The two movements in the middle seem to be embedded quickly, which gives the symphony a unique structure. Mahler created a self changing face in the melodies of the first and four movements full of self talk. When the "death" and "night" are calling Mahler's face of the heart patient, he lifts his youth from the depths of space to his beloved face. I think, Mahler in this work has a double head -- a heavy is gripped by death, he spoke of "farewell"; one is the deformation of the teenager, it comes about "". Mahler is a young boy in the stealth fling caution to the winds with a woman, life in a forest Zezhong meet, he will finish the affair by the moment have mixed feelings. In the six months before Mahler fell ill, Aban Begg was allowed to read the score of the first movement, he said in a letter, the movement performance of the abnormal love Mahler "of the world, he longed to live peacefully in the world, eager to enjoy nature's profound mystery -- before death because death is coming. Irresistible
According to Ai Downs, "the four movements of the Ninth Symphony" are not traditional forms, regardless of their form, speed and tonality. The first and last movements are slow. Two fast movements are added to the middle. The tonality of the movements is different: D major, C major, and A minor, while the last movement uses a distant relation of "D".
The whole movement permeated the sign of death. It appears again and again, and all the ideals of the earth end up with it......" But after I feel the deepest is Mahler into the theme song of joy and immersion like a secret tryst, among the dead suddenly wake up the feeling of new life, just like the beautiful melody broken this brief to convey the most incisive in ecstasies over.
