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Gustav Mahler
July 7, 1860 - May 18, 1911
born in Kalischt, Czech Republic, composed during the Romantic period
born in Kalischt, Czech Republic, composed during the Romantic period
"Imagine the universe beginning to sing and resound," Mahler wrote of his Symphony No. 8, the "Symphony of a Thousand." "It is no longer human voices; it is planets and suns revolving." Mahler was late Romantic music's ultimate big thinker. In his own lifetime he was generally regarded as a conductor who composed on the side, producing huge, bizarre symphonies accepted only by a cult following.
Born in 1860, in Kalischt, Bohemia, he came from a middle-class family. He entered the Vienna Conservatory in 1875, studying piano, harmony, and composition in a musically conservative atmosphere. Nevertheless, he became a supporter of Wagner and Bruckner, both of whose works he would later conduct frequently, and became part of a social circle interested in socialism, Nietzschean philosophy, and pan-Germanism. Around 1880, he began conducting and wrote his first mature work, Das klagende Lied. Mahler's conducting career advanced rapidly, moving him from Kassel to Prague to Leipzig to Budapest; he was usually either greatly respected or thoroughly despised by the performers for his exacting rehearsals and perfectionism. In 1897 he became music director of the Vienna Court Opera and then, a year later, of the Vienna Philharmonic. Mahler's conducting career permitted composition only during the summers, in a series of "composing huts" he had built in picturesque rural locations. He completed his first symphony in 1888, but it met with utter audience incomprehension. He reserved this time for symphonies, all of them large-scale works, and song cycles. In Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), he merged the two forms into an immense song-symphony. The Viennese public largely failed to understand his music, but Mahler took their reactions calmly, accurately predicting that "My time will yet come." Meanwhile, his autocratic ways as a conductor alienated musicians. In 1901, the press and the musicians essentially forced his resignation from the Philharmonic. He married a young composition student, Alma Schindler in 1902, and they soon had two daughters. By 1907 Mahler was increasingly away from Vienna, conducting his own works, and thus he resigned from the opera as well. Just after accepting the position of principal conductor of New York's Metropolitan Opera, but before leaving Vienna, Mahler's older daughter, age 4, died from scarlet fever and diphtheria, and he learned he himself had a defective heart valve. In New York, he was impressed by the caliber of talent and quickly gained audience approval. In 1909 he became conductor of the New York Philharmonic, which he found much more agreeable than the opera work by this time. The following year, he had a triumphant premiere of his massive Symphony No. 8 in Munich. Despite the professional successes, his personal life suffered another blow when his and Alma's marriage began having problems. They stayed together, and after he became ill in February 1911, she saw to it that he made it back to Vienna, where he died on May 18.
The conductors Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer, Willem Mengelberg, and Maurice Abravanel kept Mahler's legacy alive, and Mahler's are now among the most recorded of any symphonies. His frequent incorporation of vocal elements into symphonic writing brought to full fruition a process that had begun with Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, demonstrating his music's firm roots in the Germanic classical tradition. However, it was his huge tapestries of shifting moods and tones, ranging from tragedy to bitter irony (often explicitly indicated in performance directions), from café music to evocations of the sublime, that portended a century in which multiplicity ruled. ~ All Music Guide, Rovi
Born in 1860, in Kalischt, Bohemia, he came from a middle-class family. He entered the Vienna Conservatory in 1875, studying piano, harmony, and composition in a musically conservative atmosphere. Nevertheless, he became a supporter of Wagner and Bruckner, both of whose works he would later conduct frequently, and became part of a social circle interested in socialism, Nietzschean philosophy, and pan-Germanism. Around 1880, he began conducting and wrote his first mature work, Das klagende Lied. Mahler's conducting career advanced rapidly, moving him from Kassel to Prague to Leipzig to Budapest; he was usually either greatly respected or thoroughly despised by the performers for his exacting rehearsals and perfectionism. In 1897 he became music director of the Vienna Court Opera and then, a year later, of the Vienna Philharmonic. Mahler's conducting career permitted composition only during the summers, in a series of "composing huts" he had built in picturesque rural locations. He completed his first symphony in 1888, but it met with utter audience incomprehension. He reserved this time for symphonies, all of them large-scale works, and song cycles. In Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), he merged the two forms into an immense song-symphony. The Viennese public largely failed to understand his music, but Mahler took their reactions calmly, accurately predicting that "My time will yet come." Meanwhile, his autocratic ways as a conductor alienated musicians. In 1901, the press and the musicians essentially forced his resignation from the Philharmonic. He married a young composition student, Alma Schindler in 1902, and they soon had two daughters. By 1907 Mahler was increasingly away from Vienna, conducting his own works, and thus he resigned from the opera as well. Just after accepting the position of principal conductor of New York's Metropolitan Opera, but before leaving Vienna, Mahler's older daughter, age 4, died from scarlet fever and diphtheria, and he learned he himself had a defective heart valve. In New York, he was impressed by the caliber of talent and quickly gained audience approval. In 1909 he became conductor of the New York Philharmonic, which he found much more agreeable than the opera work by this time. The following year, he had a triumphant premiere of his massive Symphony No. 8 in Munich. Despite the professional successes, his personal life suffered another blow when his and Alma's marriage began having problems. They stayed together, and after he became ill in February 1911, she saw to it that he made it back to Vienna, where he died on May 18.
The conductors Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer, Willem Mengelberg, and Maurice Abravanel kept Mahler's legacy alive, and Mahler's are now among the most recorded of any symphonies. His frequent incorporation of vocal elements into symphonic writing brought to full fruition a process that had begun with Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, demonstrating his music's firm roots in the Germanic classical tradition. However, it was his huge tapestries of shifting moods and tones, ranging from tragedy to bitter irony (often explicitly indicated in performance directions), from café music to evocations of the sublime, that portended a century in which multiplicity ruled. ~ All Music Guide, Rovi
Selected Discography
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Track List: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Title: Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Song Cycle (12) For Voice & Piano (Or Orchestra)
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Track List: Great Recordings Of The Century - Janet Baker Sings Mahler / Barbirolli, et al
Title: Kindertotenlieder, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra)
Title: Rückert Lieder, Song Collection For Voice & Piano (Or Orchestra)
Title: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra)
Title: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen, song for voice & piano (or orchestra) (Rückert Lieder No. 3)
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Track List: Gustav Mahler: Symphonie No. 9
Disc 1
Title: Symphony No. 9 In D Major
Disc 2
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Track List: Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde / Donose · T. Harper · Halasz
Title: Das Lied von der Erde, for alto (or baritone), tenor & orchestra
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Track List: Mahler - Symphony 10 / Berliner Philharmoniker · Rattle
Title: Symphony No. 10 In F Sharp Minor (realization By Deryck Cooke)
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Track List: Mahler - Symphony No.8 In E Flat 'symphony Of A Thousand'
Title: Symphony No. 8 In E Flat Major ("Symphony Of A Thousand")
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Track List: Mahler Lieder: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Title: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra)
Title: Kindertotenlieder, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra)
Title: Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Song Cycle (12) For Voice & Piano (Or Orchestra)
Title: Rückert Lieder, Song Collection For Voice & Piano (Or Orchestra)
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Track List: Mahler: Das Klagend Lied
Title: Das Klagende Lied, Cantata For Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra
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Track List: Mahler: Das Lied Von Der Erde [Hybrid SACD]
Title: Das Lied von der Erde, for alto (or baritone), tenor & orchestra
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Track List: Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
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Track List: Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde; Symphony No9
Disc 1
Title: Symphony No. 9 In D Major
Disc 2
Title: Das Lied von der Erde, for alto (or baritone), tenor & orchestra
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Track List: Mahler: Des knaben Wunderhorn
Title: Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Song Cycle (12) For Voice & Piano (Or Orchestra)
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Track List: Mahler: Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen, Ruckert-Lieder, Kindertotenlieder / Garben, Komatsu
Title: Kindertotenlieder, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra)
Title: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra)
Title: Rückert Lieder, Song Collection For Voice & Piano (Or Orchestra)
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Track List: Mahler: Songs With Orchestra
Title: Songs With Orchestra
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Track List: Mahler: Symphonie No. 7
Disc 1
Title: Symphony No. 7 In E Minor ("Song Of The Night")
Disc 2
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Track List: Mahler: Symphony 6 in a Minor: Tragic (Bonus CD)
Disc 1
Title: Symphony No. 6 in A minor ("Tragic")
Disc 2
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Track List: Mahler: Symphony No. 1
Title: Symphony No. 1 In D Major ("Titan")
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Track List: Mahler: Symphony No. 1
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Track List: Mahler: Symphony No. 10
Title: Symphony No. 10 In F Sharp Minor (realization By Deryck Cooke)
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Track List: Mahler: Symphony No. 1; Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen
Title: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra)
Title: Symphony No. 1 In D Major ("Titan")
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Track List: Mahler: Symphony No. 2
Title: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor ("Resurrection")
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Track List: Mahler: Symphony No. 2
Disc 1
Disc 2
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Track List: Mahler: Symphony No. 2 - Resurrection
Disc 1
Disc 2
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Track List: Mahler: Symphony No. 2 / Klemperer, Philharmonia Orchestra
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Track List: Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Disc 1
Title: Symphony No. 3 in D minor
Disc 2
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Track List: Mahler: Symphony No. 3 - Benjamin Zander / Philharmonia Orchestra
Disc 1
Disc 2
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Track List: Mahler: Symphony No. 3 [Hybrid SACD]
Disc 1
Disc 2
Title: Kindertotenlieder, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra)
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Track List: Mahler: Symphony No. 4
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Track List: Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Title: Symphony No. 5 In C Sharp Minor
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Track List: Mahler: Symphony No. 5 [Hybrid SACD]
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Track List: Mahler: Symphony No. 6
Disc 1
Title: Symphony No. 6 in A minor ("Tragic")
Disc 2
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Track List: Mahler: Symphony No. 7
Title: Symphony No. 7 In E Minor ("Song Of The Night")
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Track List: Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio from Symphony No. 10
Disc 1
Title: Symphony No. 10 In F Sharp Minor (incomplete)
Title: Symphony No. 8 In E Flat Major ("Symphony Of A Thousand")
Disc 2
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Track List: Mahler: Symphony No. 9
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Track List: Mahler: Symphony No. 9
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Track List: Mahler: Symphony No.5
Title: Symphony No. 5 In C Sharp Minor
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Track List: Mahler: Symphony No7
Title: Symphony No. 7 In E Minor ("Song Of The Night")
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Track List: Mahler: The Complete Symphonies
Disc 1
Title: Symphony No. 1 In D Major ("Titan")
Title: Symphony No. 10 In F Sharp Minor (incomplete)
Disc 2
Title: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor ("Resurrection")
Disc 3
Title: Adagietto, For Orchestra (from The Symphony No. 5)
Title: Symphony No. 8 In E Flat Major ("Symphony Of A Thousand")
Disc 4
Title: Symphony No. 3 in D minor
Disc 5
Title: Ich Atmet' Einen Linden Duft, Song For Voice & Piano (or Orchestra) In D Major (Rückert Lieder No. 2)
Title: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen, song for voice & piano (or orchestra) (Rückert Lieder No. 3)
Title: Um Mitternacht, Song For Voice & Piano (or Orchestra) In B Minor (Rückert Lieder No. 4)
Title: Das Irdische Leben, Song For Voice & Piano (or Orchestra) In B Flat Minor (Des Knaben Wunderhorn No. 5)
Title: Kindertotenlieder, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra)
Disc 6
Title: Symphony No. 4 in G major
Disc 7
Title: Symphony No. 5 In C Sharp Minor
Disc 8
Title: Symphony No. 6 in A minor ("Tragic")
Disc 9
Title: Symphony No. 7 In E Minor ("Song Of The Night")
Disc 10
Title: Kindertotenlieder, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra)
Title: Symphony No. 8 In E Flat Major ("Symphony Of A Thousand")
Disc 11
Disc 12
Title: Symphony No. 9 In D Major
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