Aaron Rabushka <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Yes, Franck's d-minor symphony is often noted for it's cyclic form
>wherein themes from the first two movements return in the third. [...]
>With Mahler and Schumann one even finds material from one symphony quoted
>in another.

And in the second movement "Titan" of his first symphony with the same
name Mahler quotes the Scherzo from Hans Rott's 1880 Symphony.  Far to
much and clearly not to be a random.

James Zehm <[log in to unmask]>