Mahler's Seventh Symphony

Gustav Mahler''s Seventh Symphony stands out as one of the most provocative symphonic statements of the early twentieth century. Throughout its performance history, it has often been heard as "existing in the shadow" of the Sixth Symphony or as "too reminiscent" of Richard Wagner''s opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Anna Stoll Knecht''s Mahler''s Seventh Symphony offers a new interpretation of...