Roger Hecht ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Now just a fruitcake pickin' minute.  (Fruitcake.  Ugh.) That was fixed.
>Bruckner wrote a 0 and a 00 symphony.  Mahler wrote 4 before the official
>No. 1 (as I understand it).

This story stems from an article by (IIRC) Paul Stefan in Musical American
in 1938, when he relates how he and conductor WIllem Mengelberg discovered
them at the house of the Weber family in Dresden.

I understand that it is now believed there was a confusion here and that
there weren't actually four - or possibly any - complete student symphonies
extant even in 1930.

Deryk Barker
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