Category Archives: Compositions

The final song, “Selbstgefühl” (My mood), starts with a dynamic of forte. To maintain a high level of playfulness, the ...
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Wo die schönen Trompetten blasen is another rather sad, but achingly beautiful song. This song combines elements of the military ...
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Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder explores a more unusual theme. It warns the listener not to be too inquisitive ...
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Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft is perhaps unique in musically evoking a fragrance, the delicate fragrance of the lime tree ...
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Um Mitternacht moves from the most brilliant day to deepest night, and the change is once more immediately apparent in ...
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The poetic theme of “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen,” one of Mahler’s most beautiful and moving songs, is again ...
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The most traditional of the songs was the last composed, “Liebst du um Schönheit.” It is the most clearly strophic ...
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Autograph Sources APD: Autograph preliminary draft (for full movement or substantial part of one): orchestral works are mostly in Particelli; ...
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This page is about the manuscript only. More about Symphony No. 2. “I don’t think there has been a musical object ...
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The fair copy of the full score was a gift from Alma Mahler (1879-1964) to the Dutch conductor Willem Mengelberg (1871-1951) on her visit ...
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Gustav Mahler score Klavierquartett, piano quartet, Movement 1: in A. Listening Guide ...
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275 bars drafted in orchestral and short score. The very opening of the symphony (which is in the key of ...
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The first movement, which for the most part has the character of a march, features a motif consisting of an ...
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Based on the poem Todtenfeier by Adam Mickiewicz. With deeply serious and solemn expression. With this funeral march and the ...
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The first movement embraces a loose sonata form. The key areas provide a continuation of the tonal juxtaposition displayed in ...
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Moderately, not rushed, Sonata form. Flutes and sleigh bells open the unusually restrained first movement (and used later with a ...
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"Pan Awakes, Summer Marches In" Strong and decisive. D minor to F major. The symphony, particularly due to the extensive ...
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First movement.Moves from B minor (introduction) to E minor. The movement is in sonata form. It begins with a slow ...
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Very restrained throughout, D major. The first movement is in modified sonata form, with a substantially slow introduction. The introduction ...
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Veni Creator Spiritus ("Come Creator Spirit") is a hymn believed to have been written by Rabanus Maurus in the 9th ...
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The both first movements are in the tragic and gloomy keys of c-sharp minor resp. a minor; The only programmatic ...
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The andante provides a respite from the intensity of the rest of the work. Its main theme is an introspective ...
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Very leisurely. Never hurry. Two sections alternate in this idyllic movement, so different in style, atmosphere and scale from the ...
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The second movement is a series of dances, and opens with a rustic Ländler, which becomes distorted to the point ...
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Scherzo.Violin solo. Leisurely moving, without haste. Scherzo and Trio. The second movement is a scherzo that features a part for ...
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Moving strongly, but not too quickly, restrained, a trio Ländler. The second movement is a modified minuet and trio. Mahler ...
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Part II: Closing scene from Goethe's Faust The second part of the symphony follows the narrative of the final stages ...
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Nachtmusik I.Andante, C major/minor. The movement opens with horns calling to each other. The second horn is muted, however, to ...
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522 bars drafted in orchestral and short score. The second movement, the first of two brilliant Scherzo movements, consists of ...
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Moving stormily, with the greatest vehemence.a minor. The second movement starts tumultuously and pushing forward in the key of a ...
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"What the Flowers in the Meadow Tell Me" In the tempo of a minuet. A major. Mahler dedicated the second ...
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"What the Animals in the Forest Tells Me" Comfortably, like a scherzo. C minor to C major. The third movement, ...
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Solemnly and measured, without dragging, very simple, like a folk-tune, once again somewhat more agitated, as at the start. A ...
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Scherzo bases on Gustav Mahlers' Lied 6: Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt (Des Knaben Wunderhorn, 1892-1898). See Arnold Bocklin (1827-1901) ...
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170 bars drafted in short score, the first 30 bars of which were also drafted in orchestral score. The Purgatorio ...
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The third movement, in the form of a rondo, displays the final maturation of Mahler's contrapuntal skills. It opens with ...
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Peacefully, somewhat slowly. Theme and variations. The third movement is a solemn processional march cast as a set of variations ...
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The scherzo marks a return to the unrelenting march rhythms of the first movement, though in a 'triple-time' metrical context ...
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D major.Horn solo. As second part of the symphony follows the above mentioned third movement, the Scherzo. Totally unexpected, the ...
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Scherzo.D minor - The German marking ´Schattenhaft´ means ´Shadowy´. Flowing but not too fast. There is an undercurrent of night ...
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