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In Reply to: RE: "Mahler's spare lines" posted by pbarach on November 20, 2016 at 07:19:25:
"How can you orchestrate the sketches of the Tenth to be like the Ninth (i.e., with lots of counterpoint) without doing lots of your own composing?"
You can't, obviously. But to me, the 10th symphony as completed by Cooke is stylistically far from the other nine symphonies (though closest to the 9th), and clearly not composed by Mahler himself (AFAIK even the first movement was not completed by Mahler, especially wrt orchestration). And it isn't just a question of "spare lines". To me, much of Cooke's symphony just isn't quite in Mahler's style.
I think the problem comes from a philosophy of completing an uncompleted work by attempting to keep to the composer's original ideas as closely as possible and avoiding as much as possible inserting one's own rather than attempting to complete it as he might have.
That may be a reasonable approach and the best one for avoiding controversy, but for me it leaves a work that at the same time sounds incomplete and not truly by Mahler.
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