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...death in 1911, Gustave Mahler's Tenth Symphony was at best only seven-or eight-tenths finished; most scholars feared that the work was too personal and too fragmentary ever to be completed by another hand. But undaunted British Musicologist Deryck Cooke went ahead, fused and orchestrated the score. Without even listening to it, the composer's widow Alma emotionally vetoed publication in 1960, but last week came word that she had finally heard the tape and changed her mind. The world premiere performance will be by the London Symphony Orchestra next August; Philadelphia's Eugene Ormandy...
...fact is, Mahler never completed his Tenth-and last week's tape was, in part at least, no more than an earnest piece of musical fiction. The tape was made from a 1960 BBC broadcast of an orchestrated version of the symphony prepared for performance by English Musicologist Deryck Cooke. After one performance, Cooke's work was withdrawn at the insistence of Mahler's widow, but it lives on in a number of jealously guarded pirated recordings. Meanwhile, Mahlerians passionately argue the ethics of completing a symphony left unfinished at the composer's death...