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Thanks for directing me to the youtube clip.
About it's ambiguity; I have tried many a time to play the first part of the piece by ear on the piano, and yet to successfully replicate it, I have come close however! The timing is often very hard to grasp, let alone the harmonic progressions..!
Mahler often gets a lot of bad things levelled at him, but for this work alone we should forgive him! You can hear the influence this has had on modern music, as you mentioned before - without this work, many modern works and ideas would simply never have come into fruition.
In my opinion one of the best pieces ever written; the work of a genius!
I'll certainly have a listen to Mahler 3 at some point, thanks for the recommentdation.
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