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		everything you need to know about
		Gustav Mahler Austrian Romantic composer of huge symphonies, as well as songs and song-cycles. Mahler wrote music of great intensity and orchestral transparency and in his day was a conductor of international stature.
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		Adagietto from Symphony no.5 Vienna P O/Bernstein (DG 423 608-2) Rheinlegendchen from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Otter, Berlin P O/Abbado (DG 459 646-2)		Born: 1860 Died: 1911

I have just finished my Eighth! It is the greatest thing I have as yet done ... Imagine that the whole universe begins to sound in tone. The result is not merely human voices singing, but a vision of planets and suns coursing about.

Mahler on his "Symphony of a Thousand" in a letter to conductor Willem Mengelberg.

within bbc.co.uk music:

Mahler biography

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elsewhere on bbc.co.uk:

Discovering Music: Mahler's Symphony no.1

h2g2 The Music of Mahler

Programme Notes

Das Lied von der Erde

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The Mahler "Shrine"

"Sanctuary for any and all Cybernetic Pilgrims of the Late Romantic Period."

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MAHLER IN ONE MINUTE

The last of the great symphonists
He was better known as a conductor during his lifetime
Mahler's style is unmistakable, mixing parody and deep sincerity
He was highly respected by Vienna’s young radicals, Berg, Webern and Schoenebrg
Was a good friend of Richard Strauss
His wife, Alma, was the daughter of Austrian landscape painter Anton Schindler
The Adagietto from the fifth symphony was made famous by Visconti's film Death in Venice, the main character based on Mahler

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Mahler

GOOD RECORDINGS

A GOOD READ

Das Lied von der Erde
Ludwig, Wunderlich, Philharmonia/Klemperer
EMI CDM 566892-2
The Song of the Earth.

Rückert-Lieder
Baker, New Philharmonia Orchestra / Barbirolli
EMI CDM 566981-2
Classic performances.

Symphony no.5 - Bernstein

Symphony no.5
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Bernstein
DG 423 608-2
Sublime Mahler moments.

Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Stade, LPO/Davis
Sony 46535
Glorious singing.

Mahler: A Biography
by Jonathan Carr
(Overlook Press, 1997)
Good readable biography.

Gustav Mahler: Vienna, Triumph and Disillusion

Gustav Mahler : Vienna, Triumph and Disillusion
by H-L de la Grange
(Oxford UP, 2000)
Detailed research by Mahler scholar.

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