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Gustav Mahler - Biography

Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler (July 7, 1860 – May 18, 1911) was best known in his own time as one of the leading Austrianconductors of his day, but is now remembered as an important composer linking the late 19th century with the modern musical period, particularly for his vast symphonies and his symphonic song cycle, Das Lied von der Erde. His third symphony, at approximately 95 minutes, is one of the longest symphonies ever performed, and is currently the longest of all symphonies in the general symphonic repertoire.

Biography

Mahler was born into a Jewish family in Kaliste, Bohemia. His parents moved to Jihlava, Moravia in the first year of his life, where Mahler spent his childhood. In 1875 he was admitted to the Vienna Conservatoire where he studied piano under Julius Epstein. Subsequently, Mahler attended lectures given by Anton Bruckner at Vienna University. His first major attempt at composition came with Das Klagende Lied which he entered in a competition as an opera (he later turned it into a cantata). However, he was unsuccessfu

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Gustav Mahler, one of the last great figures of the Late Romantic movement, was at the same time one of the harbingers of twentieth century music. He had a volatile and complex personality and overtly expressed his emotional and physical suffering. That plus his Jewish birth – if not religion – was socially unacceptable to turn-of-the-century Europeans who hid behind a facade of stability and superficiality. Most of Mahler’s music expresses his battle against fate and the uncertainty of existence – which may explain how he could have written two of the Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children) following the birth of his second daughter.

In spite of his difficult personality and Austria’s open anti-Semitism, Mahler’s ascent as a conductor was spectacular. In the summer of 1880, at the age of 20, he had his first conducting job in a minor summer theater; 17 years later he was Kapellmeister and then Director of the most prestigious musical organization of the time, the Vienna Hofoper. He nevertheless found time to compose and in 1894 finished his Symphony No. 2.

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Gustav Mahler

Austro-Bohemian composer and conductor (1860–1911)

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Gustav Mahler (German:[ˈɡʊstafˈmaːlɐ]^ⓘ; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect, which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 his compositions were rediscovered by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century.

Born in Bohemia (then part of the Austrian Empire) to Jewish parents of humble origins, the German-speaking Mahler displayed his musical gifts at an early age. After graduating from the Vienna Co