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When a note has a fermata on it, you hold it for about twice the length of time.”

He never made too much of a fermata — especially in the famous four-note opening motif — and subtly rejected notions of fate knocking at the door, relishing instead the symphony’s exploration of motivic obsession.

What about the fermata over the last of the four notes in the motif?

In the fermata rest of the Ninth’s final bar, Frank’s horn still resonated in the mind, still asking: What of odes?

In the exact middle of it there is a moment: There’s a fermata, and then suddenly this E major chord.