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Dom Joseph Gajard Monk and French musicologist. Belonging to the Benedictine order and choirmaster of the Abbey of Solesmes, he contributed decisively to the recovery of the purity of Gregorian chant.Born in Sonzay (Indre and Loire) on 25 June 1885, he professed at Solesmes on 15 August 1911, where he became assistant to Dom Mocquereau. He edited the Officium Majoris Hebdomadae for The Vatican edition in 1922, contributed to the publication of the 2nd volume of the Nombre Musical Grégorien in 1927, published the Antiphonale Monasticum in 1934, and published the Agendis Mortuorum in 1949.In 1946, he was named Director of the "Revue Grégorienne" magazine (founded in 1911), in which he published many practical articles, and in 1954, of its replacement, "Études Grégoriennes". He directed the Paléographic Musicale, founded by Dom Mocquereau and conducted all the recordings of Gregorian Chant until his death on April 25, 1972.

The Symphony No. 9 by Gustav Mahler was written between 1908 and 1909, and was the last symphony that he completed. A typical performance takes about 75 to 90 minutes. A survey of conductors voted Mahler's Symphony No. 9 the fourth greatest symphony of all time in a ballot conducted by BBC Music Magazine in 2016. As in the case of his earlier Das Lied von der Erde, Mahler did not live to see his Symphony No. 9 performed.

The Symphony No. 9 by Gustav Mahler was written between 1908 and 1909, and was the last symphony that he completed. A typical performance takes about 75 to 90 minutes. A survey of conductors voted Mahler's Symphony No. 9 the fourth greatest symphony of all time in a ballot conducted by BBC Music Magazine in 2016. As in the case of his earlier Das Lied von der Erde, Mahler did not live to see his Symphony No. 9 performed.

The Symphony No. 2 in C minor by Gustav Mahler, known as the Resurrection Symphony, was written between 1888 and 1894, and first performed in 1895. This symphony was one of Mahler's most popular and successful works during his lifetime. It was his first major work that established his lifelong view of the beauty of afterlife and resurrection. In this large work, the composer further developed the creativity of "sound of the distance" and creating a "world of its own", aspects already seen in his First Symphony. The work has a duration of 80 to 90 minutes, and is conventionally labelled as being in the key of C minor; the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians labels the work's tonality as C minor–E♭ major. It was voted the fifth-greatest symphony of all time in a survey of conductors carried out by the BBC Music Magazine.