Abstract: It is an innately human endeavor to examine questions of eternality in contrast with perceived value of present human action. These existentialist considerations are central to the human experience which came to the forefront in the work of 19th- and early 20th-century Western musicians, writers, and philosophers. Before the existentialist movement began in the mid 20th century, Gustav Mahler and Søren Kierkegaard examined the same existential questions of despair, eternality, and life’s meaning. The third movement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection) represents an attempt to illustrate Mahler’s personal engagement with these difficult questions and the battle between pointlessness and hopefulness. This becomes clear through an examination of concert program notes, analysis of formal and thematic elements, and Mahler’s extensive quotation of his own song, “Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt” from Des Knaben Wunderhorn. In his work, Kierkegaard presents this search for existential truth in terms of despair and how different people experience this sickness. A person in despair flees from consciousness of their own self, and this despair is ultimately the sickness unto death. In this movement, Mahler builds a philosophical framework for these questions in conversation with Kierkegaard’s philosophical work, The Sickness Unto Death. In the third movement of his second symphony, Mahler encapsulates the self’s unwillingness to come to terms with the truest sense of itself.
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