GUSTAV MAHLER SHORT BIOGRAPHY HOME PAGE INTRODUCTION CANTATAS VOCAL INSTRUMENTAL PIANO PERFORMERS GENERAL TOPICS BACH COMPOSERS BOOKS MOVIES BACKGROUND INFORMATION LUTHERAN CHURCH BIBLE TRANSLATIONS SCORES MUSIC REFERENCES LISTS CHORALE MELODIES GUIDE TO BACH TOUR BACH FESTIVALS ARTS THE FACE TERMS ABBREVIATIONS PERFORMER BIOS C ORDER OF DISCUSSION SCHEDULE CONCERTS PAGES LINKS SEARCH SITEMAP JOIN MAILING LISTS POETS MAIN PAGE AUSTRIA AUSTRIAN COMPOSER LIFETIME AS ONE LEADING ORCHESTRAL OPERATIC NEVER ACCEPTED MUSICAL ESTABLISHMENT OF VIENNA STILL ALIVE MAHLER SYMPHONIES APPROACH GENRE BLURRED THE LINES SYMPHONIC POEM ASHKENAZIC JEWISH FAMILY THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE TODAY THE CZECH REPUBLIC WHOM PARENTS SOON JIHLAVA GERMAN SPENT TALENT ARRANGED PIANO LESSONS FOR HIM CONSERVATOIRE JULIUS EPSTEIN HARMONY ROBERT FUCHS COMPOSITION FRANZ KRENN YEARS LATER VIENNA UNIVERSITY ANTON BRUCKNER LECTURING THERE HE PHILOSOPHY MUSIC TEACHER MAJOR ATTEMPT CANTATA DAS KLAGENDE LIED THE WORK COMPETITION THE JURY JOHANNES FAILED CAREER CONDUCTOR SUMMER THEATRE BAD HALL THE YEARS OPERA LJUBLJANA OLOMOUC KASSEL PRAGUE LEIPZIG BUDAPEST CONDUCTING DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN ILL ARTHUR NIKISCH REPUTATION CRITICS PUBLIC THE YEAR COMPLETE PERFORMING EDITION CARL MARIA VON WEBER DIE DREI PINTOS SUCCESS FINANCIAL BRAHMS HAMBURG OPERA HAMBURG BROTHER COMMITTED SUICIDE THE AGE TO 18 SUMMER VACATIONS STEINBACH AM ATTERSEE UPPER AUSTRIA SYMPHONY HEARD SONG COLLECTION LIEDER KNABEN MAGIC FAMOUS VIENNA OPERA POSITION THIS WAS DEVOUT CONVERTED ROMAN CHORISTER CATHOLIC CHURCH LEARNED THE CHOIR CATHOLIC OBSERVABLE EXAMPLE THE HYMN CREATOR EIGHTH AMPLE EVIDENCE JEWISH SPIRIT MANIFEST THEME THE THIRD CONDUCTED ROBERT REPERTOIRE RAISED ARTISTIC BENDING POPULAR LOHENGRIN CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA DIRECTOR CONCENTRATED ENERGIES CLASSIC OPERAS CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK WOLFGANG AMADEUS COLLABORATION THE PAINTER ALFRED ROLLER PRODUCTIONS TRISTAN UND ISOLDE WORLDS CITIES THE CAPITAL INTELLECTUAL PAINTERS GUSTAV KLIMT EGON SCHIELE INTELLECTUALS THE OPERA NINE MONTHS SUMMERS FREE MAIERNIGG IDYLLIC SETTING FIFTH KINDERTOTENLIEDER DEATH POEMS FRIEDRICH THE LAST JUNE 1901 VILLA THE LAKE MARRIED ALMA TWENTY JUNIOR STEPDAUGHTER PAINTER CARL MOLL MUSICIAN ENGAGE CREATIVE WORK CLEAN MANUSCRIPT INTERACT NATALIE ROLE SHOULD BE TO GUSTAV TWO DAUGHTERS MARIA ANNA DIED DIPHTHERIA JUSTINE FIRST DAUGHTER LEFT WERE TO EMANUEL MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL HEART DISEASE ENDOCARDITIS FORCED LIMIT EXERCISING COUNT STEPS PEDOMETER MATTERS INCREASINGLY SUBJECT TO RESIGNATION AROUSED OPPOSITION MUSIC CRITICS HEAR THEMES PERIODS TRADITIONS MATERIAL MIXING ETHNIC CONSERVATIVE MASS ORGANIZATIONS HUNGARIANS JEWS ANXIETY INSTABILITY ALWAYS VOCIFEROUS LAST SCORE WIDER MUNICH KREFELD VALEDICTORY ABOVE PREMIERE THE GARGANTUAN THE MUSIC PERFORMED IMPETUS DEPARTURE GENEROUS THE METROPOLITAN OPERA SEASON SET ASIDE ARTURO TOSCANINI FALLEN THE TRUSTEES OF BOARD BACK IN MARRIAGE CRISIS INFIDELITY APPARENTLY HELPFUL CONSULTATION SIGMUND SIGNED CONTRACT NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC HIS FAMILY AT THIS TIME DAS LIED VON DER ERDE SONG OF THE EARTH FEBRUARY 1911 DEMANDING CONCERT FELL STREPTOCOCCAL BLOOD INFECTION FEVER PROGRAMME THE WORLD FERRUCCIO BUSONI BERCEUSE RETURNING TAKEN SERUM RECENTLY INFECTION LEAVING WIDOW REPORTED WORD DIMINUTIVE LITTLE MOZART GRINZING CEMETERY OUTSIDE OBEDIENCE BURIED GRAVESTONE BEARING NAME SIMPLE JUGENDSTIL GOOD FRIEND BRUNO WALTER EVENING LAID THE COFFIN THE CEMETERY STORM BROKE RAIN ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE DEAD THE HEARSE THE MOMENT LOWERED THE SUN WALTER ALMA MAHLER ACTIVE PUBLISHING HIS LIFE AND MUSIC ATTACKED MUSICOLOGISTS THE COUPLE CORRESPONDENCE MIGHT GENERALLY EXPAND THE SCOPE BREADTH THE SYMPHONY GREATEST POSSIBLE THE WHOLE EXPANSION SCOPE SEEN THE GREAT LENGTH THE EXPLOSION EMPLOYED AESTHETIC GOAL MAXIMUM EXPRESSIVE SAW HIMSELF FIRST VIENNESE SCHOOL BEETHOVEN SCHUBERT THE ROMANTICS BRUCKNER IDEAS ROMANTIC ROBERT SCHUMANN FELIX THE MAJOR INFLUENCE SYMPHONIC AT ALL RATHER THE ONLY TRULY SONATA FORM HISTORY OF SONATA FORM THE EXCEPTIONS PIANO QUARTET EARLY CANTATA THE ORIGINAL VERSION ENTIRE OUTPUT BESIDES THE NINE PRINCIPAL SONG CYCLES LIEDER EINES FAHRENDEN RENDERED TRAVELLING SYNTHESIS SONG CYCLE TRADITIONAL FIRST PERIOD DEGREE CONTRAST IDEAL ESPOUSED EDUARD HANSLICK LIMITS THE DEFINITION OF MULTIPLE CHOIRS COMBINATION SACRED SECULAR MAXIMALIST CONCEPTION EXCEPT CHOOSES LABEL THE SPIRIT OF LIED FRANZ SCHUBERT WRITE ACCOMPANIMENT ORCHESTRATED SET OF FOUR SONGS WRITTEN REJECTED LOVER WANDERING ALONE TEXT INSPIRED UNHAPPY LOVE AFFAIR SINGER AWARE THE COMPOSER FLOWING BRIGHT TONAL THE CLARITY MELODIC INNOVATIONS COMBINATIONS INSTRUMENTS VOICE CHORUS EXTREME VOICE LEADING COUNTERPOINT STYLE START THE OTHER SIMULTANEOUSLY CHOOSING CLARITY INVOLVED PEASANT SONG AND DANCE DEVELOPED MINUET WALTZ INDEED HISTORICAL STAGES NINTH SYMPHONY PROGRAM MUSIC RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT OF ORCHESTRA MADE POSSIBLE WAS TO EVENTUALLY THE UNDERSTANDING PRESENTING THE DETAILS ORCHESTRATION DEEPLY SPIRITUAL NATURE