Dave Harman wrote:

>Tony Duggan wrote:
>
>>The ninth, like its composer, is preoccupied with death.
>>The tenth was unfinished.
>
>But, as we all know, the 10th was finished not as much as other Mahler
>Symphonies, but finished none the less.

Actually the above quote was from a piece I posted by Ken Russell.

However, you are wrong.  Mahler never finished his Tenth Symphony.  He left
a lot of material from which a number of people have constructed performing
editions but, most definitely, Mahler did not finish his Tenth Symphony.
Had he lived he would have, probably.

Tony Duggan, England.
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