Mahler's greatest symphony Leonard Bernstein
Did you know. Mahler intended The Song of the Earth to be a Symphony for Tenor, Contralto (or Baritone) and Orchestra, but he didn't assign it a number.
This was because, like other composers of the time, he was haunted by his belief in the curse of the ninth classical music's '27 Club', perhaps in which a collection of great composers happened to die after completing their ninth symphony and before they could either start or finish their tenth.
Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner and Ralph Vaughan Williams are just a few of the well-known composers including Mahler, who was sadly unable to outrun his superstition who did not live to write a new symphony after their ninths.
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