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6/14/2025, 6:45:06 AM
>The draft has by no means been developed to the point where we can guess where it was heading. Its own laws remains shrouded in darkness. With an epico-musical composer like Mahler what is significant is the apparently insignificant and the detail which, incessantly newly produced, is always changing. And for that the fragment offers insufficient purchase. One does not need to fall victim to puritanical zeal or to fetishise the genius when one mistrusts attempts that cannot achieve their intended aim and that merely cause confusion. [...] Even the opening movement would be better honoured by our reading it in silence, rather than by being exposed to performances in which the unrealised becomes the imperfect.
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