From Darkness to Light: Mendelssohn's Lobgesang and Mahler's Symphony No. 2

• Main Author: 張皓閔
• Other Authors: 羅基敏
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12989888664042801655

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 音樂學系 === 101 === Mendelssohn's "Lobgesang" and Mahler's Symphony No. 2 are two vocal symphonies that are often compared with Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, for both of them have the same formal design as Beethoven's 9th, opening with three instrumental movements and ending in a grandiose cantata-like finale. Although most of the literature focuses on the influence of Beethoven's 9th on these two works separately, we see more in common between Lobgesang and Mahler's 2nd when observing all three works together — the main themes of these two works are religious, and they also share the same keynote, "from darkness to light." This thesis takes Mendelssohn's "Lobgesang" and Mahler's Symphony No. 2 as the study objects, reviewing how the different compositional processes influenced the formation of their distinctive structures, and comparing how the two composers demonstrated the "darkness to light" process through a variety of similar methods.