Gustav Mahler
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For a month now I have been an out-and-out vegetarian.
— Letter to Emil Freund (1 November 1880), in Gustav Mahler: New Insights into his Life, Times and Work by Alfred Mathis-Rosenzweig,
Gustav Mahler
Austrian late-Romantic composer (1860–1911)
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Lived 1860–1911, aged 51
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A conductor who dominated Europe's opera houses but whose symphonies — dense, sprawling, strange — languished until decades after his death. The Nazis banned the music. The postwar world couldn't get enough.
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Born 7 July 1860 in Bohemia to Jewish parents of humble origins, Mahler showed musical gifts early and graduated from the Vienna Conservatory in 1878. He climbed through conducting posts across Europe until 1897, when he converted to Catholicism to become director of the Vienna Court Opera — a decade marked by innovative productions, relentless standards, and constant attacks from the anti-Semitic press. Late in life he briefly led New York's Metropolitan Opera and the Philharmonic. Composing was a part-time pursuit, but he wrote for large orchestral forces and operatic soloists; the works wer…
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- Sinfonia N. 41981
- Sinfonia No. 1 "Il Titano"1981
- Sinfonia no. 51981
- Symphony no. 1 in D "Titan"1981
- Symphony no. 8 "Symphony of a Thousand"1981
- Symphony no. 5 / Symphony no. 10 – Adagio1979
- Levine conducts Mahler: Symphony no. 51979
- Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen / Rückertlieder / 2 Lieder1979
- Symphony no. 9 In D1978
- Symphonie Nr. 91977
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