Symphony No. 10 (Mahler)

The Symphony No. 10 in F-sharp minor is a piece of orchestral music by Gustav Mahler. The composer started the symphony in 1910 but died before he could finish it.   

When Mahler died, parts of the symphony were finished. There was no orchestration, so it could not be played. Only the first movement, Adagio, can be played the way Mahler wanted it. 

 Instrumentation 
Because the work is not finished, it is hard to find out what instruments would have been used. Deryck Cook's version is played most often, and it is written for: 
Woodwinds
4 flutes (4th doubling piccolo)
4 oboes (4th doubling cor anglais)
3 B and A clarinets
E clarinet (doubling 4th clarinet)
bass clarinet
4 bassoons (3rd and 4th doubling contrabassoons)
Brass
4 horns
4 trumpets
4 trombones
tuba
Percussion
6 timpani (two players)
bass drum
large muffled military drum
cymbals
triangle
tam-tam
rute
glockenspiel
Strings
harp
1st violins
2nd violins
violas
cellos
double basses

 Versions 
Deryck Cooke used Mahler's work to create four "performing versions" of the symphony. The first two were not made public, but the others were printed in 1976 and 1989.Symphony No. 10 by Gustav Mahler by Michael Steinberg

Clinton Carpenter created a version of the symphony, finishing it in 1949. It was first played in 1983. Some say that Carpenter wrote his own symphony based on Mahler.Mahler Symphony No. 10 Carpenter completion, MusicWeb (UK), review by Tony Duggan

Joseph Wheeler made four versions from 1953 to 1965.  

Michelle Castelletti wrote a chamber orchestra version of the symphony. It was first played in November 2012 in Canterbury, England by the Canterbury Chamber Orchestra.

 References 

Further Reading

Bloomfield, Theodore. "In Search of Mahler's Tenth: The Four Performing Versions as Seen by a Conductor", The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (1990), pp. 175–196
Chew, Teng-Leong. "Performing Versions of the Tenth Symphony." Naturlaut, vol. 1, no. 2 (2002), pp. 7–10 (online)
Rothkamm, Jörg. Gustav Mahlers Zehnte Symphonie. Entstehung, Analyse, Rezeption, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2003 (Reprint and e-book 2012).
Rothkamm, Jörg. "The Tenth Symphony: Analysis of its Composition and 'Performing Versions, The Cambridge Companion to Mahler, ed. Jeremy Barham. Cambridge: University Press, 2007, pp. 150–161.
Rothkamm, Jörg. "Five-Movement Orchestral Versions of Gustav Mahler’s Tenth Symphony", News about Mahler Research, vol. 53 (2006), pp. 48–66.
Rothkamm, Jörg. "Berthold Goldschmidt und Gustav Mahler. Zur Entstehung von Deryck Cookes Konzertfassung der X. Symphonie", Hamburg: von Bockel, 2000.


Matthews, Colin. "Tempo Relationships in the Adagio of Mahler's Tenth Symphony; and two wrong notes." The Musical Times, Vol. 151, No. 1910 (Spring 2010), pp. 3–8.

Outside links
 Deryck Cooke's original 1960 radio broadcast on 'Mahler's Unfinished Tenth Symphony'
 Discography of the Tenth Symphony including incomplete versions, with commentary. 
 Schott Music, "Work of the Week: Gustav Mahler/Yoel Gamzou, 10th Symphony", 1 September 2010
 Canterbury Christ Church University, concert announcement, 23 November 2012

 Orchestral score of the Adagio and Purgatorio movements, New York Philharmonic's digital archives

Category:Symphonies by Gustav Mahler
Category:Compositions in F-sharp minor
Category:1910s compositions