Quotations
My Sixth will propound riddles the solution of which may be attempted only by a generation which has absorbed and truly digested my first five symphonies.
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- (Mahler, in a letter to Richard Specht).
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My Sixth seems to be yet another hard nut, one that our critics' feeble little teeth cannot crack.
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- (Mahler, in a letter to Willem Mengelberg).
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The only Sixth, despite the Pastoral.
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- (Alban Berg, in a letter to Anton Webern).
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