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Bruckner 4

Holy shit the horn solos?? And like?? Brass????? The scherzo is so fucking good??? Please vote it????

The opening of this symphony is my favorite of all time. I can't explain the degree to which my heart explodes in my chest when I hear the opening lines. I love how Bruckner plays with inversions of the main theme in the final movement. This symphony feels like a love letter to triplets to me.

Mahler 9

The 4th movement is so emotionally charged and just so beautiful :)))

This symphony is really weird, it’s really hard to read from an emotional standpoint (yeah, it’s intense, but intensely *what*?)… at first I didn’t like it but after listening a lot it’s slowly become my second favorite Mahler symphony (after 2). First movement somehow makes a whole lot of music from what is essentially just a 2-note theme, the inner movements are these devilish little dances, and the last movement is just a beautiful farewell to the world and like the main theme is just a simple kind of turn ornament like the kind you’d hear in baroque music but he does so much with it it’s like *chef’s kiss* mmmm it’s so good

The first movement is my favorite, I LOVE all of the layering. The "heartbeat" rhythm is just haunting. The finale takes some getting used to, like slowly wading into hot water, but once you're there it's wonderful. It just takes a patient heart to crack her open.

It is the a beautiful tension between pain and hopefulness that suggests despite all the sadness Mahler experienced in his life, especially at this point, he still had some hope deep down

.. a very difficult question indeed

die nullte is an underspoken masterpiece. it gets hate but i think it's fantastically paced, from the creepy slightly-offbeat ostinato to the jumpy melody at the end

4th "romantic" is an absolute banger and well-deserving of its name. rivalled in its cinematic glory only by mahler

5th i think its also underrated? overshadowed, perhaps - as powerful and as composed as the 4th. the finale movement feels more like a symphonic poem than a finale, in contrast to some of his others, which can sometimes feel a bit underwhelming if i'm in the stimmy mood but yk i still love it <3

8th also a solid contender... best one i think as a symphony qua symphony? the themes are all related and the recapitulation (hi!) in the last movement *of* the first mvt is a fantastic moment. and some of the best four+ part harmony in the lot

9th possibly has the strongest foothold for favourite.... and i mean 9th + te deum (á la beethoven 9) ofc :) 9.2 is probably my favourite mvt (cf beethoven 5.3 :P ) of all thirty-five-odd; but, for some reason idky, 9.3 just doesn't do it for me.

Anton Bruckner

( 4 September 1824 - 11 October 1896 )

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