A THOUSAND SYMPHONY NO.8 BY MAHLER

A THOUSAND SYMPHONY NO.8 BY MAHLER

Why it is called a thousand symphony?

This is probably the lartest orchestral score ever written. It requires an enormous orchestra, 3 choruses and soloists to be performed. So it should come as no surprise to anyone why this work is seldom staged. Once you have all the necessary ingredients: it comes to a total of over one-thousand musician (orchestral and vocal forces combined). A very poignant point: Mahler never called this work "The Symphony of a thousand"; it was music critic who first made note of this fact. However and with all being said: when Mahler first conducted the work in Munich in 1910, there were more than one-thousand musicians on the stage.

Here it the video of a thousand symphony no. 8 by Mahler.