Webthe opening movement evokes the primordial forces of nature through its expansive orchestral textures and sweeping melodies.

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Webfor the choral section in the final movement, mahler used the first two stanzas of friedrich gottlieb klopstock’s poem “auferstehen” (”resurrection”).

As the symphony progresses,.

It features many motifs and themes connected to heaven.

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The final movement is a song where a child innocently.

Webmahler explores its rocking theme—most prominently in an unaccompanied french horn solo—through variation and fragmentation;

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