stackyFACTSNothing screams intellectual brilliance quite like being paralyzed by a completely arbitrary number. Mahler was so terrified of the 'curse of the ninth'—a superstition that composers drop dead after their ninth symphony—that he desperately tried to trick the universe by naming his ninth piece a 'song cycle' instead.
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