The visit to Freud was one way of working through the crisis partly sparked by his wife's infidelities; the other was the Tenth Symphony. Mahler covered the pages of its manuscript with tortured outcries - "Madness, seize me, the accursed! Negate me, so I forget that I exist, that I may cease to be!", or "To live for you! To die for you!", and even the dedication of the love song at the heart of the Symphony's finale to his wife, using an affectionate form of her name, "Almschi!" Alma stayed with Mahler during his final illness, accompanying him from New York to Paris to Vienna, where he died of a blood infection on May 18, 1911.
Monday, August 8, 2016
Mahler: Adagio from Symphony no. 10 (Cleveland Orchestra, Boulez) - YouTube
Mahler: Adagio from Symphony no. 10 (Cleveland Orchestra, Boulez) - YouTube
The visit to Freud was one way of working through the crisis partly sparked by his wife's infidelities; the other was the Tenth Symphony. Mahler covered the pages of its manuscript with tortured outcries - "Madness, seize me, the accursed! Negate me, so I forget that I exist, that I may cease to be!", or "To live for you! To die for you!", and even the dedication of the love song at the heart of the Symphony's finale to his wife, using an affectionate form of her name, "Almschi!" Alma stayed with Mahler during his final illness, accompanying him from New York to Paris to Vienna, where he died of a blood infection on May 18, 1911.
The visit to Freud was one way of working through the crisis partly sparked by his wife's infidelities; the other was the Tenth Symphony. Mahler covered the pages of its manuscript with tortured outcries - "Madness, seize me, the accursed! Negate me, so I forget that I exist, that I may cease to be!", or "To live for you! To die for you!", and even the dedication of the love song at the heart of the Symphony's finale to his wife, using an affectionate form of her name, "Almschi!" Alma stayed with Mahler during his final illness, accompanying him from New York to Paris to Vienna, where he died of a blood infection on May 18, 1911.
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