Originally posted by rathfarnhamgirl
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and bars of the same chord particularly in what Stephen Johnson calls the brass “blaze-ups”. Judged by the standards of Beethoven , Mozart , Mahler etc perhaps there is a relative dearth of melodic invention given the vast tracts of time his music occupies . And yet I still think he is one of the great musical geniuses - perhaps the greatest of those whose symphonic works were written entirely in the 19th century. As others have said I would start with 4 and 7 - 8 is a bit of a beast to be honest . But that Adagio - surely one of the greatest pieces written in the 19th century ...almost up there with Gotterdamerung .
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