He soon replaced the last three movements with a single section, essentially a dramatic, based on the closing scenes of Goethe's, the depiction of an ideal of redemption through eternal womanhood ( das Ewige-Weibliche). Mahler's composing hut at Maiernigg, where the Eighth Symphony was composed in summer 1906 From Mahler's later comments on the symphony's gestation, it is evident that the four-movement plan was relatively short-lived. Conversely, it has also been compared-by -to 's as a defining human statement for its century. While recognising its wide popularity, modern critics have divided opinions on the work, and found its optimism unconvincing, and considered it artistically and musically inferior to Mahler's other symphonies. However, from the mid-20th century onwards the symphony has been heard regularly in concert halls all over the world, and has been recorded many times.
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