Symphony No. 7 (Mahler)

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Symphony No. 7
by Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler in 1907
Key	(E minor –) C major
Composed	1904–1905: Maiernigg
Published	1909 (1909): Berlin
Publisher	Bote & Bock
Movements	5
Premiere
Date	19 September 1908 (1908-09-19)
Location	Prague
Conductor	Gustav Mahler
Performers	Czech Philharmonic

The Symphony No. 7 by Gustav Mahler is a symphony in five movements composed in 1904–05, sometimes referred to by the title Song of the Night (German: Lied der Nacht), which was not the composer's own designation.^[1] Although the symphony is often described as being in the key of E minor, its tonal scheme is more complicated. The symphony's first movement moves from B minor (introduction) to E minor, and the work ends with a rondo finale in C major.^[2] Thus, as Dika Newlin has pointed out, "in this symphony Mahler returns to the ideal of 'progressive tonality' which he had abandoned in the Sixth".^[3] The complexity of the work's tonal scheme was analysed in terms of "interlocking structures" by Graham George.^[4]