Who was Gustav Mahler?

Answer 1

Gustav Mahler 1860-1911, composer and conductor, was born 07 July 1860, in Austrian Bohemia. He was the product of Jewish parents, Bernhard and Maria (nee Hermann) Mahler, whose union produced 14 children (11 sons and 3 daughters), the majority of whom did not survive more than two years. Young Gustav studied at University of Vienna and earlier at the Vienna Conservatory. He was later conductor of the Budapest Imperial Opera (1888-90), director of the Hamburg Municipal Theater (1891-97), of the Vienna State Opera (1897-1907), as well as of the New York Philharmonic (1909-11). In the United States, he also conducted the Metropolitan Opera (1908-10).

As a conductor, Mahler achieved the highest standards of performance, which have become legendary. His refusal to compromise artistic integrity aroused intense personal opposition in both Vienna and New York.

Primarily composing during his summer vacation months, Mahler completed nine symphonies. His unfinished tenth has been completed (from Mahler's own outline) by Deryck Cooke, among others, including: Clinton Carpenter, Joseph Wheeler and Remo Mazetti. Mahler's legacy also includes several songs and song cycles, mostly with orchestral accompaniment. Of the cycles, 'Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen' ['Songs of a Wayfarer'] (1883-85), 'Kindertotenlieder' ['Songs on the Death of Children'] (1901-4), and 'Das Lied von der Erde' ['The Song of the Earth'] (1907-10) are the most notable.

Mahler followed Bruckner (his former professor and whose works he often conducted) in the Viennese symphonic tradition. He added folk elements to the symphony and expanded it in terms of length, emotional contrast, and orchestral size. He used choral or solo voices in four symphonies: his Second, Third, Fourth, and Eighth; the Eighth becoming known as ' The Symphony of a Thousand ', due of the enormous performing forces required. The thinner texture, wide-ranging melodies, and the taut, intense emotionalism of Mahler's late works strongly influenced the next generation of Austrian composers, especially Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg.

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Answer 2

Gustav Mahler 1860-1911, composer and conductor, was born 07 July 1860, in Austrian Bohemia. He was the product of Jewish parents, Bernhard and Maria (nee Hermann) Mahler, whose union produced 14 children (11 sons and 3 daughters), the majority of whom did not survive more than two years. Young Gustav studied at University of Vienna and earlier at the Vienna Conservatory. He was later conductor of the Budapest Imperial Opera (1888-90), director of the Hamburg Municipal Theater (1891-97), of the Vienna State Opera (1897-1907), as well as of the New York Philharmonic (1909-11). In the United States, he also conducted the Metropolitan Opera (1908-10).

As a conductor, Mahler achieved the highest standards of performance, which have become legendary. His refusal to compromise artistic integrity aroused intense personal opposition in both Vienna and New York.

Primarily composing during his summer vacation months, Mahler completed nine symphonies. His unfinished tenth has been completed (from Mahler's own outline) by Deryck Cooke, among others, including: Clinton Carpenter, Joseph Wheeler and Remo Mazetti. Mahler's legacy also includes several songs and song cycles, mostly with orchestral accompaniment. Of the cycles, 'Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen' ['Songs of a Wayfarer'] (1883-85), 'Kindertotenlieder' ['Songs on the Death of Children'] (1901-4), and 'Das Lied von der Erde' ['The Song of the Earth'] (1907-10) are the most notable.

Mahler followed Bruckner (his former professor and whose works he often conducted) in the Viennese symphonic tradition. He added folk elements to the symphony and expanded it in terms of length, emotional contrast, and orchestral size. He used choral or solo voices in four symphonies: his Second, Third, Fourth, and Eighth; the Eighth becoming known as ' The Symphony of a Thousand ', due of the enormous performing forces required. The thinner texture, wide-ranging melodies, and the taut, intense emotionalism of Mahler's late works strongly influenced the next generation of Austrian composers, especially Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg.

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