Bob Kasenchak ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Although Mahler 1 -is- a little different, since there are different
>versions and all that.  But all the same, a nickname is what something
>is commonly called, whether it is proper or not (usually not).  It does
>add some color to the names sometimes (although "Jupiter" for Mozart 41
>always bugs me for some reason...unneccarily programatic IMO).

Actually Mahler 1 is *completely* different.  What we have here is a
sobriquet which the composer himself applied to *one* version of the score
only and then specifically withdrew.

Deryk Barker
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