Category Archives: Compositions
Symphony in two parts for large orchestra, eight soloists, two mixed choirs and boys'choir. "Try to imagine the whole universe ...
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Symphony No. 9 by Gustav Mahler was written between 1908 and 1909, and was the last symphony he completed. Though ...
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Among the manuscripts preserving the earliest stages of the composition of Symphony No. 7, a most important group of sketches ...
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Drinking song of the world's misery Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde.Key: a minor.Allegro pesante. (Cheerful heavy.)After Chinese poet: Li ...
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Der Schildwache Nachtlied is a complex military-style song with trumpet calls and drum rolls, but it is also a dialogue ...
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The first song in the Mahler collection, “Fruhlingsmorgen” (Spring morning), incorporates text written by Richard Leander. As notated in the ...
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Im Lenz (Spring) alternates a lively musical idea for the first and third stanzas with a more mysterious passage for ...
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Nun will die Sonn’ so hell aufgeh’n Nun will die Sonn’ so hell aufgeh’n Als sei kein Unglück die Nacht ...
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Revelge is the most intense and manic of the Wunderhorn settings, and also by far the most extended. It is ...
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This song is the first of the Wunderhorn Lieder for Voice and Piano. It is titled “Um sclimme Kinder artig ...
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A beautiful, but proud queen would like to get married but do not know who. She conceives of a competition: ...
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The first movement is entitled "Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht" ("When My Sweetheart is Married"), and the text discusses the ...
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Lob des hohen Verstandes is, like the Fischpredigt, a satirical song. It is of a jolly nature, describing a singing ...
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Also in Symphony No. 2 - Movement 4: "Urlicht". Sehr feierlich, aber schlicht. Text Lied 11: Urlicht written in 1905 ...
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Also in Symphony No. 3 - Movement 5: Lied 2: Lustig im Tempo und keck im Ausdruck: Bimm bamm. Es sungen ...
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The lonely man in autumn Der Einsame im Herbst.Key: d minor.Etwas schleppend. Ermudet. (Somewhat dragging. Weary.)After Chinese poet: Qian Qi.Voice: ...
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A minstrel that runs through the forest finds a bone under a tree, and cuts a flute. When he plays ...
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Tamboursg'sell is the last composed of Mahler's Wunderhorn settings. Like Revelge, it is sung by a doomed drummer. Rather than ...
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The second song in the collection, “Erinnerung” (Remembrance), contains text by Richard Leander. Curiously, this song starts in F minor ...
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The second movement, "Ging heut Morgen übers Feld" ("I Went This Morning over the Field"), contains the happiest music of ...
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“Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grun," (I went joyfully through a green wood), is a beautiful slow melody challenging ...
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Nun seh’ ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen Nun seh’ ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen Ihr sprühet ...
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Verlorene Müh' is another dialogue song, and it is in the distinctive Swabian dialect. It is a sort of fruitless ...
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Winterlied is better organized, being based on a single unifying motive stated in the piano at the very beginning of ...
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The majority of the songs in this collection begin with very soft dynamics. Eleven of the fourteen songs begin with ...
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The third song in the collection, “Hans und Grethe” is a wonderful mixture of waltz-like fervor and sublime self-introspection. Many ...
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On the day that the minstrel arrives at the castle there is just a party going on for the occasion ...
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The third movement is a full display of despair. Entitled "Ich hab'ein glühend Messer" ("I Have a Gleaming Knife"), the ...
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The final surviving song of the set, Maitanz im Grünen (May Dance on the Green) is an early version of ...
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Trost im Unglück describes the feelings of somebody trying to move past a lost or rejected love, comforting himself with ...
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Of youth Von der Jugend.Key: B-flat Major.First scherzo.Behaglich heiter. (Comfortably cheerful.)After Chinese poet: Li Bai.Voice: Tenor.Duration: 3 minutes. The third ...
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Wenn dein Mütterlein Wenn dein Mütterlein tritt zur tür hinen, Und den Kopf ich drehe, ihr entgegensehe, Fällt ...
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The final movement culminates in a resolution. The music, also reused in the First Symphony (in the Scherzo "Funeral March ...
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Score Kindertotenlieder - Lied 4: Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen Oft denk ich sie sind nur ausgegangen! ...
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The fourth song in the collection was inspired by Tirso de Molina, a poet and Spanish monk. The text from ...
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One of the challenges with the ninth song in this collection, "Starke Einbildungskraft" (Strong imagination), concerns clarity of articulation. Sixteenth-note ...
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Of beauty Von der Schonheit.Key: G Major.Comodo. Dolcissimo. (Comfortable. Very sweet.)After Chinese poet: Li Bai.Voice: Alto (or Baritone).Duration: 8 minutes ...
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Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht? is another pastoral setting and, as Verlorene Müh'; it is in 3/8 meter. It is ...
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Das irdische Leben is a grim little piece, perhaps providing the negative counterpart to Das himmlische Leben, the song that ...
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The drunk man in spring Der Trunkene im Fruhling.Key: A Major.Second scherzo.Allegro. Keck, aber nicht zu schnell. (Audacious, but not ...
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In diesem Wetter In diesem Wetter, in diesem Braus, Nie hätt’ ich gesendet die Kinder hinaus! Man hat sie getragen ...
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The text from both the “Serenade” and “Phantasie” come from Tirso de Molina’s 1630 play Don Juan. Mahler arranged both ...
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The tenth song in this collection, “Zu Strassburg auf der Schanz” (At Strasbourg on the battlement), starts with a very ...
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Misprints are rare, but this song contains one incorrect note in the piano part. In measure 3 of the IMC ...
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The farewell Der Abschied.Key: C minor to C Major.Schwer. (Heavy).After Chinese poets: Mong Kao Yen and Wang Sei.Voice: Alto (or ...
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Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt, in 3/8 time, is best known as the source for the music of the scherzo ...
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Rheinlegendchen is perhaps the most tender of the settings and, as many others of a pastoral nature, employs a 3/8 ...
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“Scheiden und Meiden” (Partings) explores the metric juxtaposition of two versus three used in “Ablösung im Sommer.” “Trumpetlike” is the ...
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Lied des Verfolgten im Turm is very similar to Der Schildwache Nachtlied, but now the protagonist is a prisoner. Again, ...
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Balancing the soft low texture with piano remains one of the main challenges for tubists in the penultimate song in ...
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