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Gustav Mahler - Adagio from Symphony No. 10 in F sharp major (incomplete), 1910 | Vienna Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein. Movements 00:00 I Adagio Incomplete movements: Scherzo (sketches) Purgatorio (sketches) Scherzo (sketches) Finale (sketches) Other Recordings: Adagietto Mahler left a substantially complete first movement of his tenth symphony, marked Adagio and published a few years after his death. It is a meditative, tragic movement, rising to a screamingly dissonant chord pierced by a high trumpet note. Mahler died after sketching out the rest. Musicologist Deryck Cooke discovered around 1960 that the composer had written at least a melodic line from the beginning of the second movement to the end, sometimes with detailed indications of instrumentation and harmony, sometimes with less information, sometimes with nothing but the melodic line. He used this sketch to produce a “performing version“ in which to Mahler's
