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Austria (1860 – 1911)

Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and conductor.

Mahler was best known during his own lifetime as one of the leading orchestral and operatic conductors of the day, but he has since come to be acknowledged as among the most important composers – a remarkable feat for a figure whose mature creativity was concentrated in just two genres: song and . Besides the nine completed symphonies, his principal works are the song cycles “Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen” (usually rendered as ‘Songs of a Wayfarer’, but literally ‘Songs of a Travelling Journeyman’) and Kindertotenlieder (‘Songs on the Death of Children’), and the synthesis of symphony and song cycle that is “Das Lied von der Erde” (‘The Song of the Earth’).

Mahler told fellow composer Jean Sibelius in 1907 that “a symphony should be like the world: it must embrace everything”; putting this philosophy into practice, he brought the genre to a new level of artistic development. Increasing the range of contrasts within and between movements necessitated an expansion of scale and scope (at around 95 minutes, his six-movement “Symphony No. 3” is the longest in the general symphonic repertoire) – while the admission of vocal and choral elements (with texts drawn from folk-poetry, Friedrich Nietzsche, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Chinese literature, and Medieval Roman Catholic mysticism) made manifest a philosophical as well as autobiographical content.
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  • Orenji-kun

    The 9th Symphony. Oh God, the 9th Symphony...

    Thursday afternoon

  • mahleria

    Willem Mengelberg founded the long-standing Mahler tradition of the Concertgebouw. He met and befriended Gustav Mahler in 1902, and on October 23, 1904, Mahler led the orchestra in his Symphony No. 4 twice in one concert, with no other work on the program. Mahler wrote to his wife Alma Mahler that this programming idea (presumably Mengelberg's) was a "stroke of genius."

    March 2012

  • hjbardenhagen

    OK, Last.fm has updated the tag database in the meantime, so the only symphony tag radio still missing at the moment is . Two others would be and with streamable albums of these orchestral song works.

    March 2012

  • m-saIami

    N°9 in the middle of the night

    March 2012

  • hjbardenhagen

    The missing Symphony tag radios , , and already exist as personal tag radios. Some of them even were available as global tag radios in the past and fell back to personal due to deletion of albums or tags. But anyone can visit these tag pages and pick any of the albums or tracks listed there in the Recent Activities to apply the specific tag on them. After the next database update they might turn into global tag radios available for everyone again.

    March 2012

  • mikeedols

    nice tagging, i'm gonna take note of that

    March 2012

  • hjbardenhagen

    Six Mahler Symphony tag radios went global recently: , , , , and , furthermore , , and . Thanks to soestdyik for helping out with tagging some related albums.

    February 2012

  • MusicHallofFame

    The Music Hall of Fame are delighted to induct Gustav Mahler into the Class of 1966. Congratulations. Please vist our page too see the latest inductees into the Music Hall of Fame

    February 2012
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