Previous posts for September 14th are here: Michael Haydn (2019) and Luigi Cherubini (2020)
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Unfinished Business
Alma Mahler, who had demanded a veto on further performances of the Cooke performing version, actually changed her mind upon seeing Cooke's revised score and hearing the recording. --- adapted from Wikipedia, s.v. "Symphony No. 10 (Mahler)"
One can say this
About Deryck Cooke:
He approached the abyss
And took more than a look.
He threw himself in
As composer and scholar.
Oh! how to begin
When finishing Mahler?
And if his edition
Is censured and slandered,
It was Alma’s permission
That made the thing standard.
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