For composers laboring in the long shadow cast by Beethoven, producing more than nine symphonies became a sort of fateful test. Gustav Mahler died before completing his tenth, leaving much of it in draft form, including the fourth movement seen here. Although Deryck Cooke and others created performable versions after Mahler’s death, this partial score records a labor that never bore the full fruit of its creator.
Gustav Mahler (Austrian, 1860–1911): Symphony no. 10, fourth movement (sketches, detail), autograph manuscript, 1910. Morgan Collection.