Gustav Mahler, Symphony 10, 1910
Once written that nine-note discord – a wound in A-flat minor cut open by high-A on trumpet – can never be un-written never be unheard never be exorcised haunting everything after it like the annunciation of a wife’s infidelity like an orchestral unconscious, the dissonant repressed liberated by a visit to Freud in Holland. It lurks round the corner of every phrase in the remainder of the Adagio is lying in wait in the Scherzos is something to trip over in Purgatorio, is unleashed again in the finale and even reminiscences of long-ago Adagiettos cannot stop it bleeding out of the score into the twentieth century beyond. Jonathan Taylor Jonathan Taylor's books include the novels "Melissa" (Salt, 2015) and "Entertaining Strangers" (Salt, 2012), the memoir "Take Me Home" (Granta, 2007), and the poetry collection "Musicolepsy" (Shoestring, 2013). He is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Leicester. His website is www.jonathanptaylor.co.uk.
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