The Fifth Symphony was one of Mahler’s most frequently revised works. After its technical completion in1902, Mahler came back to the work many times to changeorchestrationand voicing, though rarely did he alter its structure. The first time he revised it was just before its premiere inCologne...
in which each symphony is a chapter of the great work, with deep internal connections, and new symphonies often seem to emerge directly from the previous one.