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Mahler Symphonies
While recently participating in a multinational research conference in Quebec, all 9 of the original military band works of Mahler were performed for the first time in a single week. It was not known until the late 1950s, when the original band scores were found, that all 9 of his "symphonies" were indeed orchestrated from the original band works. Seeing that Mahler was good friends and in some cases colleagues with military musicians, it is understandable that he wrote (and in some of the cases, commissioned) these works for the 9 German Military bands of the time. It was only later, during the 2nd decade of the 20th century, when orchestras became the more preferred social entertainment that Mahler himself "orchestrated" all 9 of the original band pieces for orchestra. The etymological study of this word orchestration has also brought us to this same arena, in as much as Mahler was the first to utter the this word when changing all 9 pieces from band to orchestra. It is not understood why Mahler not only started a 10th piece, in that there were only 9 bands at the time, but also why he did not finish it.

MahlerHistorian--MahlerHistorian (talk) 18:05, 2 September 2009 (UTC)