Special Lecture by Nick Pfefferkorn "Mahler's "Symphony No. 5

Mr. Nick Pfefferkorn, the president and reviser of Breitkopf & Hertel, Germany, will be visiting Japan to give a lecture.

The theme will be Gustav Mahler's "Symphony No. 5," for which a new original edition was released by Breitkopf & Härtel in February of this year.
Since its first publication in 1904, there have been five different editions of this work. The last edition was the so-called "New Critical Grammar" (NKG) edition (2002), revised by Kubik.
None of these editions, however, has been able to clarify the complex, convoluted, and often contradictory material situation surrounding the work.
Unlike the other symphonies, Mahler left the Fifth in a tentative form, leaving the revisers confronted with many mysteries and intricate inheritance and revision errors.

The fact that Pfefferkorn and his associate reviser Riedel have, for the first time, deciphered the revision and publication history of the Fifth, and have published a critical edition that more than ever approaches Mahler's ultimate intentions, is truly a sensational event.

In this lecture, Mr. Pfefferkorn, who himself revised the work, will share the story behind the revision process that takes us back to the origins of Mahler's intentions. Based on previously unknown or neglected authentic sources, he will reveal how the Breitkopf original of "Symphony No. 5" was created.

Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear from the reviser himself!
(The lecture will be given in German with Japanese interpretation.)