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Ode to Heavenly Joy
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Ode to Heavenly Joy

symphony by Mahler
Also known as: “Symphony No. 4”
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  • Gustav Mahler
    Gustav Mahler
    / Musical works: middle period

    4 (1900; popularly called Ode to Heavenly Joy), which is more of a pendant to the first period: conceived in six movements (two of which were eventually discarded), it has a Wunderhorn song finale for soprano, which was originally intended as a movement for Symphony No. 3 and which…

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    4 (1900; popularly called Ode to Heavenly Joy), which is more of a pendant to the first period: conceived in six movements (two of which were eventually discarded), it has a Wunderhorn song finale for soprano, which was originally intended as a movement for Symphony No. 3 and which…

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