It begins with a setting of "Veni, creator spiritus," a medieval poem  attributed to the Archbishop of Mainz (MINES). As if to illustrate the link between Christian mysticism and nineteenth-century Romanticism, the second part takes as its text the final scene of Goethe's _F
It begins with a setting of "Veni, creator spiritus," a medieval poem  attributed to the Archbishop of Mainz (MINES). As if to illustrate the link between Christian mysticism and nineteenth-century Romanticism, the second part takes as its text the final scene of Goethe's _Faust_. FTP, identify this first fully choral symphony by Gustav Mahler whose nickname refers to the number of people needed to perform it.
It begins with a setting of "Veni, creator spiritus," a medieval poem  attributed to the Archbishop of Mainz (MINES).