MESSAGES BEYOND THE SCORE, OR ENCODED MEANINGS IN MAHLER’S SYMPHONIES
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Babeș-Bolyai University / Cluj University Press
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Could it be that the deliberately chosen solitude in the three Komponierhäuschen during the creative summers would isolate and, at the same time, free the composer from the music he had conducted during the seasons? Or, maybe just like the haunted castles, his symphonies will hide in their labyrinth forsaken musical personalities, leaving in the themes, sometimes just transfigured fragments, the evidence of the composer’s admiration and devotion for the broken destinies. For those who will discover the overwhelming force of his music only decades later, Mahler will be the revelation of perfection in his multiple and varied roles and original masks, as well as through the surprises generated by the meeting of themes he liked – the great and departed. The present study began from the impact of Mahler’s music, as he himself would have liked it; it is well known the fact that he refuted more than once the initial program of his symphonies and the deciphering of his anthropomorphic enigmas creates just as many connections between the pre-sign – research of triggering biographical or socio-political events, act-sign – the specific of communication and post-sign – their hermeneutic and historical interpretation.