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Utah Symphony: Mahler's Symphony No. 4 Staff Pick
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During his lifetime, composer Gustav Mahler was far better known for his conducting than he was for his own music. Sure, people knew he wrote symphonies, and some of them were even performed occasionally, but his compositions were considered to be minor contributions to the modern canon. As another small twist of fate, Mahler made his name conducting music by Wilhelm Richard Wagner—Hitler's favorite composer—only to later have his own music banned during the Nazi era as "degenerate" because of his Jewish roots in Bohemia. Mahler completed nine symphonies, helping to bridge the Romantic period of classical music with the Modern, and Utah Symphony is in the middle of a two-year cycle celebrating the composer. While Mahler is known for his fixation on everything in his compositions—choirs, large horn, percussion sections and little-known instruments—Symphony No. 4 is actually one of Mahler's simpler, not to mention shortest, works. It's commonly considered the final instalment of the symphonies, an end cap for the previous three that deal with a similar theme culled from an even earlier work, (The Child's Magic Horn). Mahler's conducting chops are now a historical footnote, but his works have clearly found appreciative ears—although, as is so often the case, long after his death. Other works on the bill for Utah Symphony's season closer will be Dmitry Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 (featuring violinist Veronika Eberle), and Morgen, Op. 27, No. 4 by Richard Strauss. (Jacob Stringer)
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