Deryk Barker [[log in to unmask]] mormots:

>But I don't think it's anything like as original as Mahler's Das klagende
>Lied, written a decade before his first symphony.  BTW, there is no
>evidence I'm aware of that Mahler was actually familiar with the score to
>Rott's symphony before he borrowed it around 1900.

Yes, Mahler did borrow Rotts score in year 1900 to study it, but he
knew it long before.  Remember Rott and Mahler were good friends at the
conservatory time, and surely they played their works for each other on
the piano...

ALL Mahler symphonies bears influence from Rott.

Mats Norrman
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