Mahler Foundation is actively seeking the support of individuals and organizations that can contribute to our mission with their time and knowledge.

If you love Mahler and would like to share your time, expertise, information, documents, photos, or … Read More

Surprisingly, one of the least investigated areas in Mahler’s scholarship is the significance of children and childhood in the composer’s work and aesthetic … Read More

Embracing Musical Innovation: Mahler Foundation’s Prize at the Mahler Competition

Mahler Foundation is thrilled to announce its support for the Mahler Competition Award, the esteemed celebration of classical music excellence, taking place in July in Bamberg. 

This prestigious contest … Read More

We strongly believe that commissioning new music is one of the best ways to ensure Gustav Mahler’s legacy as an innovator accompanies us throughout the 21st century. We have already achieved accolades … Read More

We explore the composer, the thinker, and the humanist Gustav Mahler not only in his life and works … Read More

Cate’s literally works cover a wide range of topics that included Alma Mahler.
Her wonderful … Read More

This prestigious contest brings together the finest young conductors from around … Read More

• Tobias Niederschlag, Head of Artistic Planning, Gewandhaus
• Tahlia Petrosian, Founder and Director Wunderhorn Festival Leipzig
• Thomas Hampson, Baritone, Co-Curator Leipzig Mahler Festival

Leipzig, the famed musical city of Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, and … Read More

• Elise Caluwaerts, Soprano
• Marianna Shirinyan, Pianist

Alma Maria Schindler grew up among the artistic elite in late 19th-century Vienna. Her father was a famous painter, her mother a singer. The leading lights of the Secession, theater … Read More

• John Warner, founder and director of Orchestra for the Earth
• Benjamin Garzia, founder and director of Mahlerian Camerata

As we explored in a recent episode, Gustav Mahler is becoming more and more of a popular icon. … Read More

• Alejandra Urrutia – Founder, Artistic Director, and Conductor of the Portillo Academy and Festival
• American String Quartet
• Patricio Sabaté – Baritone

The Portillo Festival is back, this year with a performance of Mahler’s Das Lied von … Read More

• Jeremy Barham, Professor of Music at the University of Surrey and expert on Mahler and media https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/jeremy-barham

Gustav Mahler famously tapped into the popular culture of his day to render waltzes, marches, dirges, and other tropes … Read More

• Gabriela Elgarrista, Documentalist, Research and Cultural Mediation Officer Bibliothèque musicale La Grange – Fleuret
• Vincent Mouret, Vice President – Bibliothèque musicale La Grange – Fleuret
• Anna Stoll-Knecht, Musicologist, Research Associate – Bibliothèque musicale La Grange

We send our congratulations to each and every one of them, but also to the Sociedad Mahler and our Vice-Chair Francisco … Read More

• Lew Smoley, President, The Gustav Mahler Society New York
• Lawrence F. Bernstein, Professor Emeritus of Music, University of Pennsylvania

Every May we shift the normal Saturday timeslot of The Mahler Hour to commemorate Mahler’s passing on … Read More

• Alejandra Urrutia, Conductor and Violinist
• Marina Mahler, Founder and President, Mahler Foundation

Every July we shift the normal Saturday timeslot of The Mahler Hour to commemorate Mahler’s birthday on July 7, 1860.

On July 2022 … Read More

• Oksana Lyniv, Conductor, General Music Director, Teatro Comunale di Bologna
• Alexandra Saitseva, Director, Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
• Dmytro Cherepov, Violinist, Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
• Marina Mahler, Founder and President, Mahler Foundation

The tragedy … Read More

• Sybille Werner
• Stephen Hefling
• Beate Thalberg

Natalie Bauer-Lechner is remembered in the Mahler world as a close family friend for a period of almost 10 years who kept a detailed journal documenting her conversations with the … Read More

APD:      Autograph preliminary draft (for full movement or substantial part of one): orchestral works are mostly in Particelli; Lieder mostly v(oice) and p(iano)

AOD:      Autograph orchestral draft

AFC:      Autograph fair copies

CFC:      Copyist’s fair copy (included only when necessary)

FS:         Facsimile score

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• Aaron Cohen, producer of Embrace Everything.
• Marilyn McCoy, musical and historical advisor.
• Jason Starr, producer and director of Mahler’s symphonies films.
• Alexander Vivero, pianist.
• Lawrence F. Bernstein.

Mahler’s Second Symphony is … Read More

• Stephen McClatchie  – Musicologist, Professor, Huron University College
• Brian McMillan – Director, Music Library, University of Western Ontario
• Francisco Bricio – Vice Chairman, Mahler Foundation 

Personal letters are a window into the private lives and thoughts of … Read More

More about Hans Richter and Gustav Mahler

• Mark Strachan, founder of the Choir of the Earth
• John Warner, Founder and Conductor of Orchestra for the Earth
• Brenda Pruitt, Chorister
• Ellie Blamires, Flutist
• Arturo Gómez Poulat, Executive Director of

• Presented by Lew Smoley and the Gustav Mahler Society of New York

We return to a presentation on Mahler’s music.

In this hour of listening examples and explanations, Lew Smoley is back to demonstrate how the … Read More

• Alexander Gerdanovits
• Johannes Brummer
• Dr. Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein

This time we kick off the Spotlight with a brand new season of webcasts.

We will be streaming live from inside Mahler’s composing hut in Maiernigg on Lake Wörthersee … Read More

• Renate Stark-Voit
• Thomas Hampson

This show will be dedicated to Mahler’s enchanting songs from the folk poetry collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn, we will explore why Mahler loved these texts, where they came from and what … Read More

• Mahler’s Foundation Board

We kick off the second season of live webcasts with an inside look at Mahler Foundation: what we do, who is involved, and what drives our mission.

Meet the members of the Board… Read More

Given the latent need to offer children and youth spaces that allow them to develop their artistic talent; the Conservatory will be a complement … Read More

• Steinbach am Attersee

This special edition of The Mahler Hour kicks off our second season of the show and celebrates Mahler’s 161st birthday!

We will be streaming live from Steinbach am Attersee, where Mahler finished his Second … Read More

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Part Two of the Eighth Symphony is Mahler’s longest symphonic movement, the length of its texthe closing scene from Goethe’s Faust part two, is so extensive that it might well be considered beyond the limits of symphonic form. It … Read More

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Mahler’s last symphonic movement, he wrote one of his most beautiful themes, and some of his most stirring soul searching music. In his final effort to transcend human suffering and mortality, Mahler creates one final dualism. That is the … Read More

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On the title page of the sketches for this movement, Mahler again poured out his grief:

The Devil dances it with me

Madness, seize me, the accursed!

Destroy me so that I may forget that I exist!

that I … Read More

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The so called Purgatorio movement is the shortest of any of Mahler’s, purely symphonic movements lasting little more than four minutes, wedged between two large and complex scherzo’s, this brief relatively uncomplicated movement seems nearly buried by them, its … Read More

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Second movement we’ll call scherzo one is one of Mahler’s most original scherzo’s, intended at first to be a scherzo finale of a much shorter Symphony, this movement combines traditional scherzo trio formed with Sonata elements, and juxtaposes a … Read More

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In its grand design, thematic content and conceptual framework, the first movement of the 10th is a worthy successor to the finale of the ninth. As in the closing Adagio movement of the Ninth Symphony, the 10th opening movement … Read More

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One of the tragedies of Mahler’s brilliant career as a composer is that he could not complete what might well have been his greatest Symphony. But we are fortunate that he left one virtually completed movement and substantial sketches … Read More

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Having been subjected to the raging violence, manic fury and sneering mockery of the rondo burlesque, the human spirit seem to be doomed to a tragic fate, if the proceeding movements lead us to the conclusion that all that … Read More

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In the third movement, as in so many of Mahler’s scherzo’s, his inner demon takes center stage, it has been aptly referred to as Mahler’s dance macabre. Unlike the principal subjects of the scherzo of the sixth and … Read More

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In the second movement Mahler once again indulges his penchant for parody for the use of popular dance music as a parable to the societal decadence of his time. He does not just offer dances such as the Waltz, … Read More

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Typical of Mahler symphonies, the first movement presents a conflict between theme groups that function as antagonists, which builds to a cataclysmic climax, after which resolution remains uncertain. The dualism of subject matter is presented as the substance of … Read More

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With the Ninth Mahler returns to a purely orchestral Symphony, after having succeeded in integrating chorus and orchestra in his Eighth, and the genres of the song cycle and Symphony and Das Lied von der Erde, Mahler turns … Read More