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Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 performed in Hong Kong under Tarmo Peltokoski
Tarmo Peltokoski led a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No.
8 in Hong Kong.
Gustav Mahler described the work as life-affirming and said he completed its huge score in two feverish months in 1906.
The symphony marked a major change in Mahler’s style.
It is sung from beginning to end, rather than being purely instrumental.
Its two parts bring together a Latin hymn and a scene from Goethe’s Faust, written in different languages.
The work was unprecedented for combining these elements on such a scale.
The account gives no details about further performances.
Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 was performed in Hong Kong under the baton of Tarmo Peltokoski.
The symphony is in E-flat major and is sung from beginning to end.
It combines a Latin hymn with a scene from the second part of Goethe’s Faust.
Mahler told writer Richard Specht in 1906 that he completed the score in a feverish two months.
- Who
- The performance was conducted by Tarmo Peltokoski.
- What
- Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 was performed.
- When
- Not stated.
- Where
- Hong Kong.
- Why
- Not stated.
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- Work
- Mahler’s Symphony No. 8
- Conductor
- Tarmo Peltokoski
- Location
- Hong Kong
- Key
- E-flat major
- Composition account
- Mahler said in 1906 that he completed the score in two months.
What people are saying
It was like a lightning vision – I saw the whole piece immediately before my eyes and only needed to write it down, as though it were being dictated to me,