Appearance
Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921) (published 1923) Mahler, whose outward appearance gives so much cause for criticism, used to reply to reproaches about ...
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Awards
Awards
Batons
Business card
Business card
Business card Kapellmeister Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Printed visiting card signed and inscribed (‘Mahler’) with a fifteen-line autograph message to a conductor, conceding ...
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Cartoons and caricatures
Cartoons and caricatures
Clothing
Clothing
Year 1900. Gustav Mahler presented this cap to the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (VPO) after the successful guest appearances in Paris in ...
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Conducting style
Conducting style
Year 1901. Der fliegende Blatter, March 1901, by Hans Schliessmann (1852-1920). Amsterdam During the fourth visit of Gustav Mahler to Amsterdam, ...
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Correspondence sources
Correspondence sources
1. Correspondence 2. The Mahler Family Letters One day it might become possible to embark upon ...
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Death mask
Death mask
Alfred Roller (1864-1935), one of Mahler’s best friends, described Mahler’s appearance: “When, on the morning after the night he died, ...
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Doodles
Education
Fan blade
Fan blade
Autograph Musical Quotation on Enormous Wooden Fan Blade. Oversize decorative fan leaf, measuring 2 FEET (60 cm.) in length, inscribed ...
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Favorite composers and compositions
Finances
Finances
Year 1880:
Food and drink
Fountain pen
Friends
Glasses
Glasses
Glasses. Médiathèque Musicale Mahler. Glasses. Case Philipp Emmerich, Munchen, Maximilianstrasse 41. Médiathèque Musicale Mahler. Related posts:
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Grave
Grave
Gustav Mahler-Alfred Rosé Collection – Inventory
*** Search on this page with CTRL + F *** 1.0 Mahler letters and Mahler documents (original donation) 1.1 Letters ...
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Hair
Hair
Envelope containing a lock of Mahler’s hair folded in blue tissue paper. Envelope inscribed by Justine (Ernestine) Rose-Mahler (1868-1938): “Ein Haarlocken ...
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Health
Inspiration
Inspiration
“My music is always the voice of nature sounding in tone…” “The Bohemian music of my childhood home has found ...
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Last notes
There survives a heart-rending document from this final stage of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)‘s illness. It was probably the last thing ...
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Last sketch book
A group of sketches is found in the Theatermuseum (theatre collection) in Vienna, as part of the estate of the ...
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Legal
Love life
1878 (Humpolec/Zeliv) 1880 (Jihlava) 1881-1884/1885 (Ljubljana and Kassel) ...
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Marriage
Marriage
Wedding card Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) and Alma Mahler (1879-1964). Wedding card Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) and Alma Mahler (1879-1964) (detail).
Monogram
Monogram
Letter monogram Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) by Alfred Roller (1864-1935). However, this monogram is disputed. “AM” (Alma) more likely than “GM” Related posts:
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Music publishers
Bote & Bock music publishers
  • 1909: Pocket score of Symphony No. 7.
Bussjager & Rattig music publishers (Vienna)
Paintings, drawings and silhouettes
Paintings, drawings and silhouettes
Year 1888 ...
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Pernerstorfer circle
Pernerstorfer circle
The Pernerstorfer Circle was a group of late- 19th-century Viennese ...
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Photos
  • Photos of Gustav Mahler can be found in the specific year of the Chronology.
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Pianos
Pianos
Piano of his grandfather Abraham Herrmann (1807-1868). Location: House Abraham Herrmann I (House No. 203). In the loft Gustav found a piano in ...
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Poems
Press
Quotes
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”  “My music is always the voice of nature ...
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Reading
Gustav Mahler’s reading was wide-ranging, extending, as it did, from the classics of world literature to rather more recondite works ...
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Recollections
Recollections Alma Mahler
Recollections Alma Mahler
Alma Mahler (1879-1964).
Recordings Welte-Mignon
Recordings Welte-Mignon
Religion
On 23-02-1897 (Year 1897) Gustav Mahler walked into the St. Michael’s church small (Hamburg) and was “received” or baptized into the Roman ...
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Sculpture (August Rodin and Anna Mahler)
Signature
Sports
Sports
Bicycle owned by the Gustav Mahler Vereinigung Hamburg.  Related posts:
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Terminology
  Terminology from Mahler Symphonies ab away ( Sordinen ab  = mutes off) abdämpfen dampen down aber but aber deutlich but ...
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Theosophy
Occultism was thriving in fin-de-siècle Vienna when Mahler was about forty years old.  There was more to turn-of-the-century Vienna than ...
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Vegetarianism
Mahler’s vegetarianism is documented in his letters: 1. “The following season proved a very gloomy one for Mahler. Once more ...
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Wills
Wills
Dated 29-06-1891 Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)‘s will, dated Perchtoldsdorf (Vienna), 29-06-1891 (Year 1891) and witnessed by Dr. Emil Freund (1858-1928). Mein letzter Wille! ...
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Works of Art
Works of Art
Concerto by Giorgione (1478-1510). Engraving. A reproduction hung above Mahlers’ piano. Bruno Walter (1876-1962): “I entered his room and immediately I ...
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Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) was a late-Romantic composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born to a Jewish family in the village of Kaliste in Bohemia, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now the Czech Republic.

As a composer, Gustav Mahler 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 popularity in Europe (especially Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands) before the Second World War (when performances were banned in those countries). After the war, émigré conductors popularized his works in the US and UK as well, and they gained popularity when recordings became widely available, especially after the anniversary years of 1960/61.

 

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) – Symphony No. 1 (1888)

Gustav Mahler’s oeuvre is relatively small; for much of his life composing was necessarily a part-time activity while he earned his living as a conductor. Aside from early works such as a movement from a piano quartet, composed when he was a student in Vienna, Gustav Mahler’s works are designed for large orchestral forces, symphonic choruses and vocal soloists.

 

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) – Symphony No. 2 (1894)

His works were often controversial when first performed, and several were slow to receive critical and popular approval. Some of Gustav Mahler’s immediate musical successors included the composers of the Second Viennese School, notably Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern.