Musical Borrowing
An Annotated Bibliography

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[+] Pirie, Peter J. "Crippled Splendour: Elgar and Mahler." The Musical Times 97 (February 1956): 70-71.

Both Elgar and Mahler make use of march rhythms and military music (fanfares). The Finales of the two first symphonies are comparable is some respects. Elgar's Second Symphony includes a very Mahleresque passage. The end of Elgar's Falstaff is compared to the end of Mahler's Ninth Symphony. Both composers are viewed as expressing the "foreboding of terror which hangs over most of the art of the years 1900-14."

Index Classifications: 1900s

Contributed by: David C. Birchler



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