Jon Johanning wrote:

>There are moments in [Mahler's] orchestral works in which the
>orchestration is spare enough to suggest chamber music, and they are
>quite beautiful, but I cannot imagine him being able to restrict the
>enormous scale on which his musical imagination obviously worked to
>the point that he could write even one chamber music piece.

Mahler did write at least one chamber music work -- a one-movement Piano
Quartet.  I don't remember much about it since it's been many years since
I read through it, but I believe that it is a student work.

--Rich Putter
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