John Dalmas ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>The Mahler would have been right on, though I doubt if anyone in 1912 would
>have been acquainted sufficiently with the adagio (the only completed
>movement) to the point of calling it a "favorite."
Given that even the adagio wasn't either performed or published until the
1920s (1924 for the Krenek edition sounds about right), it sounds as if
what we have here is what is known in the trade as an anachronism.
Deryk Barker
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