Joseph Wheeler (musicologist)

Joseph Hugh Wheeler, Joe Wheeler briefly, (* 1927 in Bromley, † 11 October 1977) was an English musicologist, who probably created the first complete performance version of the unfinished 10th Symphony of Gustav Mahler.

Wheeler was the son of an amateur musician who played in a brass band. Joe Wheeler showed themselves musical ambitions as wind and was a founding member of the " Guild of Gentlemen Trumpeters " suggested, however, by the end of his military service with the RAF in 1948 a civil service career in. The American music critic and Mahlerenthusiast Jack Diether encouraged him to deal with the torso of the 10th Symphony of Gustav Mahler.

From 1952/1953 Wheeler worked a total of four complete versions of the work. The first version was completed in 1959, but remained as a second version, unperformed (1959 Deryck Cooke began, of which the most played today, complete version of Mahler's Symphony No. 10 was derived initially without knowledge of the work Wheelers with its complement ). A third version Wheelers concluded in May 1965, the Caecilian Symphony Orchestra under Arthur Bloom premiered. A fourth version was presented in November 1966 in New York under Ionel Perlea with the Manhattan School of Music Orchestra. This version is based on two recordings, which produced the conductor Robert Olson in 1997 with the Colorado Mahler Festival Orchestra and in 2000 with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Wheeler's last version is compared to the completions of other editors, perhaps closest to Mahler's existing short score and points in the instrumentation ( which sometimes prefers Brass ) on the in Mahler's late work ( Song of the Earth ) to constative thinning. She found - although Wheeler had not completed a music degree - quite recognition and was also used at a later completion by Remo Mazzetti as a basis.