IN PERFORMANCE

CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA

THE BOULEZ CONDUCTS MAHLER

FRIDAY, JULY 5 @ 10:00PM

Gustav Mahler composed portions of his Symphony No. 10 in the summer of 1910, while faced with his wife’s infidelity. The following year, he passed away from an infection of the heart at the age of 50. The composer’s intent was for the incomplete score to be burned, but his wife (who eventually married her lover, the famous architect Walter Gropius) managed to have the sketch orchestrated and posthumously premiered.

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