Symphonie no. 9

Album by Gustav Mahler & Philharmonia Orchestra & Kurt Sanderling

Symphony No. 9 is the ninth symphony by Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, composed in 1909–1910 and first performed in 1912. Scored for a large late-Romantic orchestra, it juxtaposes expansive lyrical passages, abrupt outbursts and sparse, fragmented textures with wide dynamic range and complex harmonies, and is Mahler's final completed symphony that marks a culmination of his late-Romantic orchestral writing while pointing toward early 20th-century modernist tendencies.