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Exploring the Hidden Energies and Themes Within the “Fifth Symphony Family” – Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Bruckner, Mahler, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Sibelius
The association caused by the symphony number has always been a topic that music fans talk about. The most widely circulated one is naturally the famous “Ninth Symphony Curse” . Throughout the Romantic era from Beethoven to Mahler, the Ninth Symphony created by different composers without exception became their swan song, so much so that the entire Western music world talked about the Ninth Symphony until this day. The situation was broken by Shostakovich. Under the control of this magical spell, people are naturally accustomed to talking about these Ninth Symphony in parallel. What the “Ninth” has in common is obvious: they are the last important and highly completed symphonies…