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Old Aug 20 2008, 11:38 PM
Fredrik Fredrik is offline

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Originally Posted by Si... View Post
Length probably has a lot of influence over whether a symphony makes it into the standard repertoire or not. The longer it gets, the less accessible the work becomes, and the less 'convenient' for orchestras to programme.
Hi Si,

You've got a point there! Of course long symphonies like Mahler's third requires a lot of resources.

Short or long, exciting or boring! I think one can say that Mahler achieved both in writing long exciting symphonies. That's my opinion!

Thanks for interesting point of view!

Fred
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