How do non-musicians hear music? First movement

The hut in Toblach in which Gustav Mahler composed his Ninth Symphony

The hut in Toblach in which Gustav Mahler composed his Ninth Symphony

A long time ago, before I really learned how to read it, I remember listening to music and not hearing individual notes. I cannot recall what I did hear, except that I can remember that the first movement of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony conjured up dream-like images of a journey through a strange flat landscape (more…)

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