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In the full score at http://imslp.org/wiki/File:PMLP39959-El ... score).pdf there is a marking at the top of page 6 that looks like " L------------- A ------------- " (I tried to put a .png here to make it easier to understand but could not find out how to do this). There is a similar marking right at the end of the symphony, but with " R------------------ ". These marks appear on the flute stave at the top of the score, but also on the Violin 1 staff - so they probably apply to the whole orchestra, not to the individual instruments. Can anyone tell me what they mean? Many thanks for the collective wisdom available here.

This is explained in a note to his 2nd symphony:
L - Largamente
A - Accelerando
R - Ritardando

My score of Symphony 2 has an instrumentation list with this note, but there isn't such a page in my Symphony 1 score, which is a bit odd.

Many thanks - I never would have guessed. Wonder why he didn't just use the (real) words - there is room, I think.