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Future Mahler Concerts around the World

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Gustav Mahler Musikwochen 2024

Mahler Festival Toblach

Gustav Mahler Music Weeks
Toblach / Dobbiaco
13-07-2024 - 29-07-2024

A unique collaboration between the famous Gustav Mahler Music Weeks in Toblach and Mahler Foundation.

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Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano's Mahler Festival Triumph

Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano’s Mahler Festival Triumph

The grandeur of the 30th anniversary celebration of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano reached its zenith with a momentous performance —Mahler's 9th Symphony in D major— as the final ...

Mahler Festival 2025 in Amsterdam

Mahler Festival 2025 in Amsterdam

In a celebration of Gustav Mahler's enduring legacy, The Royal Concertgebouw is set to host the eagerly anticipated third Mahler Festival from May 9 to 18, 2025. This remarkable ...

Mahler Festival in Milan: Celebrating 30 Years of Musical Excellence

Mahler Festival in Milan: Celebrating 30 Years of Musical Excellence

In a historic gathering of Italy's grandest symphony orchestras, the Milan Auditorium will host a remarkable Mahler Festival from October 22 to November 13, 2023. This unique musical initiative ...

The Mahler Foundation Festival Orchestra at the Beijing Music Festival

The Mahler Foundation Festival Orchestra at the Beijing Music Festival

Join us on October 15, 2023, for the pinnacle of the Beijing Music Festival! This year, we are delighted to introduce the Mahler Foundation Festival Orchestra, a collective of ...

Cabrillo Festival: World Premiere of Xavier Foley's Resurrection of Titan

Cabrillo Festival: World Premiere of Xavier Foley’s Resurrection of Titan

Don’t miss this opportunity to re-live the exciting premiere of Resurrection of the Titan this Sunday, September 17 at 6pm (Pacific Time)

Cabrillo Festival, in association with ...

Harmonies of the Highlands: Mahler Players' Chamber Season

Harmonies of the Highlands: Mahler Players’ Chamber Season

Mahler Players’ season kicks off with a bang on Saturday 16th September at Inverness Cathedral, delving into the depths of the Sixth Symphony, affectionately known as the "Tragic". Under ...

Royaumont Festival: Vocalités viennoises autour de 1900

Royaumont Festival: Vocalités viennoises autour de 1900

We are delighted to share the exciting news that the "Viennese Vocality around 1900" colloquium is set to take place on the 15th and 16th of September. Hosted at ...

Resplendent Auferstehung: Müncher Philarmoniker’s Season Opening

Resplendent Auferstehung: Müncher Philarmoniker’s Season Opening

Mark your calendars for September 7th, as the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra kicks off its historic season with Mahler's Second Symphony in the contemporary setting of the Isarphilharmonie’s Hall.

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Mahler Jugendorchester's 2023 Summer Tour!

Mahler Jugendorchester’s 2023 Summer Tour!

Experience the captivating magic of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester's 2023 Summer Tour! Embark on a mesmerizing journey across Europe as this world-renowned orchestra, led by the most talented young ...

Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music: witness the evolution of classical music

Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music: witness the evolution of classical music

Join us for the exhilarating 61st Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, a captivating celebration of contemporary music, set against the breathtaking backdrop of Santa Cruz, California. From the 30th ...

In loving memory of Cate Haste

In loving memory of Cate Haste

Mahler Foundation honors the life of Cate (Catherine Mary) Haste, author, biographer, historian, documentary film director, and a dearest friend and supporter of Mahler Foundation

Cate’s literary ...

Embracing Musical Innovation: The Mahler Foundation's Prize at the Mahler Competition

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

The 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.

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Help us reforest Mahler’s Composing Hut surroundings

Help us reforest Mahler’s Composing Hut surroundings

During the summer months between 1908-1910, Gustav Mahler composed some of his most celebrated works in this rustic but idyllic wooden cabin in the heart of the Dolomites: the ...

Mahler Festival Amsterdam 2025

Mahler Festival Amsterdam 2025

From May 9 through May 18, 2025, The Royal Concertgebouw will host the third Mahler Festival in its history. 105 years after the first Mahler Festival, orchestras from around ...

Mahler Society UK presents The Delphine Trio

Mahler Society UK presents The Delphine Trio

On Wednesday, May 24th, at the elegant 1901 Arts Club in London, the Gustav Mahler Society UK will present The Delphine Trio and Friends performing “A Chamber Music Celebration” ...

Lieder von (unter) der Erde: Music meets Poetry at Wunderhorn Festival

Lieder von (unter) der Erde: Music meets Poetry at Wunderhorn Festival

The Wunderhorn Festival in Leipzig is going to delight late nights from May 19 th to May 22 nd , warming the iconic and historical Moritzbastei Club. Parallel to ...

Mahler 8th, a dream come true in México

Mahler 8th, a dream come true in México

Last Sunday, the children's choir of the Mahler Conservatory of Irapuato, Mexico, made history by performing Mahler's 8th symphony.

We send our congratulations to each and every ...

Invitation to the Premiere of Von Der Liebe Tod

Invitation to the Premiere of Von Der Liebe Tod

Gustav Mahler's never-written opera at the Vienna State OperaThe production Vonder Liebe Tod is an artistic experiment: two Gustav Mahler masterpieces, Dasklagende Lied and the Kindertotenlieder, are combined into ...

Hans Richter

Hans Richter (1843-1916)

Hans Richter (1843-1916) to Gisela Scherling (1898): Score leitmotiv Fafnir (Siegfried - Act II - Scene III).

More about Hans Richter and Gustav Mahler

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Bernard Haitink (1929-2021)

Bernard Haitink (1929-2021)

Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink died October 21 at age 92. The range of his work gives a glimpse of how much he was admired and beloved both in Europe ...

Mahler Foundation’s Conservatory, Mexico.

Mahler Foundation Conservatory in the Mexican city of Irapuato México will begin operations in August 2021.

Given the latent need to offer children and youth spaces that ...

Mahler Programs Amsterdam 1903

Mahler Programs Amsterdam 1903

Covers by Antoon Molkenboer (1872-1960) in color and by Theo Neuhuys (1878-1921). 24 pieces from Molkenboer, 3 pieces from Theo Neuhuys and 5 other pieces (total of 32 pieces) ...

Come to see our new YouTube Channel!

Come to see our new YouTube Channel!

Mahler Foundation's new YouTube Channel is live with more than 600 videos in 29 playlists with everything related to the music and work of Gustav Mahler on YouTube.

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Mahler plays Mahler

In November 1905 Mahler made four piano rolls for M. Welte & Sohne in Leipzig.

These piano rolls are the only accurate and detailed impression of how ...

Alma Rosé – Concert

A story about a world-class violinist, Alma Rosé, who spent her life performing on the stages of the largest concert halls in Europe. In 1943, due to her Jewish ...

Beethoven's 9th, Gustav Mahler's Orchestration

Beethoven’s 9th, Gustav Mahler’s Orchestration

To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, On Air will broadcast from Vienna, the world capital of classical music for ‘the year of Beethoven’.

The ...

Interview Marina Mahler

Interview made by Lucas von Worekum to Marina Mahler in London on December 19, 2019.

Created by Symphonic Cinema Productions.

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Mahler Symphony #2 with the Self-Isolation Choir

Saturday, November 14th

The Self-Isolation Choir aims to provide comfort and support to people feeling disconnected from friends, family, and life by bringing us all together to ...

Embrace Everything

Embrace Everything

The Embrace Everything series is an exploration and celebration of the music of Gustav Mahler. Each season explores a different Mahler symphony and includes interviews with leading conductors, music scholars ...
Second Mahler Hour

Second Mahler Hour

Mahler turns 160! Second Mahler Hour by Mahler Foundation. Featuring: Marina Mahler, Aaron Cohen, Eveline Nikkels, Joost Honselaar, Thomas Hampson, Francisco Bricio and others. Host: Morten Solvik. Recorded: July 7, ...
Alma Mahler and Allert de Lange

Alma Mahler and Allert de Lange

A new edition will be released on June 12, 2020: Briefwechsel Alma Mahler - Allert de Lange Verlag, a publication of the Gustav Mahler Stichting Nederland, delivered by Matthijs Boumans ...
Earth Day 2020

Earth Day 2020

Join Mahler Foundation for The Song Of The Earth on Earth Day! Three Inspiring Films for Earth Day 2020 Gustav Mahler once said: "I want to be remembered as the ...

Resurrection Symphony

In August 1892 a cholera epidemic struck Hamburg as Mahler was on his way there to conduct another season at the Stadttheater. Faced with possibly drastic consequences and defying orders ...

The Arduous Road to Vienna (1860-1897) by Henry-Louis de La Grange (revised and edited by Sybille Werner)

This long awaited revised volume I completes Henry-Louis de La Grange (1924-2017)'s four-volumes. The present instalment, covering the years 1860 to 1897, traces the life and career of Mahler from his ...

Mahler Multilingual

In the course of 2020, the Mahler Foundation website will be available in different languages. Languages can be recognized by the small flags at the top right of the homepage.

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Maestro Amsterdam

Maestro Amsterdam

The Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (RCO) came to a top three: Andris Nelsons, Ivan Fischer (1951) and, surprisingly, Valery Gergiev. Now it has to come to an agreement with one of ...

Mahler Green Composer

Gustav Mahler: A green composer 'In Mahler’s time, although industrialisation was in full swing, there was not yet a tangible threat to nature. Nevertheless, Mahler was highly aware of the ...

Mahler World Map

World map with all the locations visited by Gustav Mahler. The map also contains other Gustav Mahler related locations such as the Mahler Societies and the Mahler Foundation. Link to the Gustav ...

Baptismal ceremony

More details were found of Gustav Mahlers baptismal ceremony in 1887 in Hamburg in the St. Michael's church small ...

Mariss Jansons

Mariss Jansons (1943-2019) died on Sunday 01-12-2019 in St. Petersburg, Russia ...

Mahler Legacy

Latest developments can be found in the Gustav Mahler legacy.
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Symphony No. 10 (1924)

Performances in Hong Kong and Amsterdam of the 1924 Willem Mengelberg (1871-1951) version of Symphony No. 10.
  • 13-12-2019 Hong Kong: Symphony No. 10 - Adagio and Purgatorio. Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden ...
Bernard Haitink (1929-2021)

Bernard Haitink (1929-2021)

Bernard Haitink (1929).

  • Profession: Conductor, violinist.
  • Residences: Amsterdam, Lucern, South of France, London.
  • Relation to Mahler: One of the great Mahler conductors ...