THE MUSIC Not coincidentally so, according to the psychoanalyst Theodor Reik: in 1891, Mahler had played his “Todtenfeier” movement on the piano for Bülow, hoping he would perform it. But Bülow had covered his ears and declared that if this was music, he no longer knew what music was. Thus, at Bülow’s funeral Mahler’s creative logjam may have been broken up by subconscious
Not coincidentally so, according to the psychoanalyst Theodor Reik: in 1891, Mahler had played his “Todtenfeier” movement on the piano for Bülow, hoping he would perform it. But Bülow had covered his ears and declared that if this was music, he no longer knew what music was. Thus, at Bülow’s funeral Mahler’s creative logjam may have been broken up by subconscious
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