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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 post-romantic composers – a remarkable feat for a figure whose mature creativity was concentrated in just two genres: song and symphony. 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, Nietzsche, Goethe, Chinese literature, and Medieval Roman Catholic mysticism) made manifest a philosophical as well as autobiographical content.
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 post-romantic composers – a remarkable feat for a figure whose mature creativity was concentrated in just two genres: song and symphony. 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, Nietzsche, Goethe, Chinese literature, and Medieval Roman Catholic mysticism) made manifest a philosophical as well as autobiographical content.
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Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen
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Andante moderato
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III. In ruhig fliessender Bewegung
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The Beautiful Blue Danube
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Um Mitternacht
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Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
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Der Einsame im Herbst
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Jewhefner wrote:
awesome. love symphony no.1
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Zlotythepoet wrote:
I'm sorry, but why do The Blue Danube, Pomp and Circumstance and In the Hall of the Mountain King appear in his most played tracks?!?
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fpc4 wrote:
I find myself spending more and more time with this composer's scores... I don't know if I'll ever really understand his 3rd...wonderful to attempt it though.
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EvigHvile wrote:
Kindertotenlieder is so beautiful and sad at the same time
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handmeups wrote:
on tour loloL!1111
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Cloud286 wrote:
Sinfonia de los 1000...!!! N°8...
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Disunity wrote:
Me encanta su música <.<!!
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zaothra wrote:
the Polyphony , the Counterpoint, the Dynamic through the Brasses, the great and the Post-Romantic type of Orchestration, the unique idea of bringing the Mandoline in Scherzo of the 7th symphony, these are the thing showing the way to Neoclassical rise. the 7th symphony is just perfect...
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hjbardenhagen wrote:
By the way, LastFM has a lot of fantastic Mahler recordings hidden under bad tags, e.g. everything with Sir John Barbirolli and Dame Janet Baker from the EMI. Here's one example:
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (1999 Digital Remaster)
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LeoBirtwhistle wrote:
no surprises what track is no. 1...
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Heilig_Zorn wrote:
What's the problem with "on tour"? His works are still played and well-appreciated.
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Amnesiac92 wrote:
On tour...lol
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all_apologies_ wrote:
symphony no. 2 is my absolute favorite. but no. 8 is so very close. Absolutely sublime!
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Heilig_Zorn wrote:
Élite.
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woyopalembang wrote:
Devine!
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Floydies wrote:
beautiful :)
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refractions wrote:
Adagietto is probably from his fifth symphony - movt. 4. Divine.
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AramisTM wrote:
http://www.lastfm.pl/music/Gustav+Mahler/+images/34099179 vote the moustached Mahler up
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buzbus wrote:
genius,one of this guys,who was experimental,not only making music,but also thinking about it
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deadmissbates wrote:
I think I'm terribly in love with Mahler. Walter Gropius hasn't got anything on him, Alma really was nuts. Poor Gustav! ♥
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Mahler - Tweede symfonie in c 'Auferstehung'
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Inauguracja Roku Chopinowskiego
Filharmonia Łódzka im. Artura Rubinsteina, Łódź, Poland
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Salomon Orchestra - Mahler 10
St. John's Church, London, United Kingdom
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