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• gustav mahler
• carl nielsen
• fourth symphony
• fffffff
• ligeti
• fffff
• symphony no 5
• shostakovich
• violins
• pluck
• footnote
• staircase
• ffffff
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Shostakovich even went as loud as fffff in his fourth symphony. Gustav Mahler, in the third movement of his Seventh Symphony, gives the violins a marking of fffff , along with a footnote directing 'pluck so hard that the strings hit the wood.' On another extreme, Carl Nielsen, in the second movement of his Symphony No. 5, marked a passage for woodwinds a diminuendo to ppppp . Another more extreme dynamic is in Gyrgy Ligeti's Devil's Staircase Etude, which has at one point a ffffff and progresses to a fffffff.

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