Gustav Mahler
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| Mahler was best known during his own lifetime as one of the leading orchestral and operatic conductors of the day. He has since come to be acknowledged as among the most important [[neoromanticism (music)|post-romantic]] composers. With the exceptions of an early [[Piano Quartet (Mahler)|piano quartet]] and ''Totenfeier'', the original tone-poem version of the first movement of the second symphony, Mahler's entire output consists of only two genres: [[symphony]] and [[song]]. Besides the nine completed numbered symphonies, his principal works are the [[song cycle]]s ''[[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').{{GFDL}} | Mahler was best known during his own lifetime as one of the leading orchestral and operatic conductors of the day. He has since come to be acknowledged as among the most important [[neoromanticism (music)|post-romantic]] composers. With the exceptions of an early [[Piano Quartet (Mahler)|piano quartet]] and ''Totenfeier'', the original tone-poem version of the first movement of the second symphony, Mahler's entire output consists of only two genres: [[symphony]] and [[song]]. Besides the nine completed numbered symphonies, his principal works are the [[song cycle]]s ''[[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').{{GFDL}} | ||
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| + | *He was married to [[Alma Mahler]] | ||
| + | *The Nazis regarded his music as [[degenerate music]]. | ||
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Gustav Mahler (July 7, 1860 – May 18, 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. He has since come to be acknowledged as among the most important post-romantic composers. With the exceptions of an early piano quartet and Totenfeier, the original tone-poem version of the first movement of the second symphony, Mahler's entire output consists of only two genres: symphony and song. Besides the nine completed numbered 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').
Trivia
- He was married to Alma Mahler
- The Nazis regarded his music as degenerate music.
