Listening Guide – Rondo-Burleske: Allegro assai. Sehr trotzig
Transcript In the third movement, as in so many of Mahler’s scherzo’s, his inner demon takes center stage, it has been aptly referred to as Mahler’s dance macabre. Unlike the principal subjects of the scherzo of the sixth and seventh symphonies, however, the ninth scherzo is neither mocking nor parodic. Instead, it reveals the ferocious […]