Although it has no precise narrative program, Mahler's Symphony No. 4, premiered in 1901, is dedicated to the mysteries of childhood: first, pastoral joy of carelessness, with reminiscences of village festivals; second, carnival games, with the almost debonair mask of death; and third, spiritual nostalgia, with the "celestial life" promised by the lied in the last movement, one of those poignant Adagios of which Mahler has the secret. The torments and joys of love, the erotic impulse and nostalgia of desire, the elegy transcended in lyrical delight: so confide in the intermingled voices of Sophie, Octavian and the Marechal in the sublime concluding Trio of the Knight of the Rose. This summit of Richard Strauss' operatic art touches, today as yesterday, the most intimate strings of each destiny.
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