Category Archives: Compositions

Lied des Verfolgten im Turm is very similar to Der Schildwache Nachtlied, but now the protagonist is a prisoner. Again, ...

Balancing the soft low texture with piano remains one of the main challenges for tubists in the penultimate song in ...

The final song, “Selbstgefühl” (My mood), starts with a dynamic of forte. To maintain a high level of playfulness, the ...

Wo die schönen Trompetten blasen is another rather sad, but achingly beautiful song. This song combines elements of the military ...

Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder explores a more unusual theme. It warns the listener not to be too inquisitive ...

Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft is perhaps unique in musically evoking a fragrance, the delicate fragrance of the lime tree ...

Um Mitternacht moves from the most brilliant day to deepest night, and the change is once more immediately apparent in ...

The poetic theme of “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen,” one of Mahler’s most beautiful and moving songs, is again ...

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; ...

This page is about the manuscript only. More about Symphony No. 2. “I don’t think there has been a musical ...

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 ...

Gustav Mahler score Klavierquartett, piano quartet, Movement 1: in A. Listening Guide ...

275 bars drafted in orchestral and short score. The very opening of the symphony (which is in the key of ...

The first movement, which for the most part has the character of a march, features a motif consisting of an ...

Based on the poem Todtenfeier by Adam Mickiewicz. With deeply serious and solemn expression. With this funeral march and the ...

The first movement embraces a loose sonata form. The key areas provide a continuation of the tonal juxtaposition displayed in ...

Moderately, not rushed, Sonata form. Flutes and sleigh bells open the unusually restrained first movement (and used later with a ...

"Pan Awakes, Summer Marches In" Strong and decisive. D minor to F major. The symphony, particularly due to the extensive ...

First movement.Moves from B minor (introduction) to E minor. The movement is in sonata form. It begins with a slow ...

Very restrained throughout, D major. The first movement is in modified sonata form, with a substantially slow introduction. The introduction ...

Veni Creator Spiritus ("Come Creator Spirit") is a hymn believed to have been written by Rabanus Maurus in the 9th ...

The both first movements are in the tragic and gloomy keys of c-sharp minor resp. a minor; The only programmatic ...

The andante provides a respite from the intensity of the rest of the work. Its main theme is an introspective ...

Very leisurely. Never hurry. Two sections alternate in this idyllic movement, so different in style, atmosphere and scale from the ...

The second movement is a series of dances, and opens with a rustic Ländler, which becomes distorted to the point ...

Scherzo.Violin solo. Leisurely moving, without haste. Scherzo and Trio. The second movement is a scherzo that features a part for ...

Moving strongly, but not too quickly, restrained, a trio Ländler. The second movement is a modified minuet and trio. Mahler ...

Part II: Closing scene from Goethe's Faust The second part of the symphony follows the narrative of the final stages ...

Nachtmusik I.Andante, C major/minor. The movement opens with horns calling to each other. The second horn is muted, however, to ...

522 bars drafted in orchestral and short score. The second movement, the first of two brilliant Scherzo movements, consists of ...

Moving stormily, with the greatest vehemence.a minor. The second movement starts tumultuously and pushing forward in the key of a ...

"What the Flowers in the Meadow Tell Me" In the tempo of a minuet. A major. Mahler dedicated the second ...

"What the Animals in the Forest Tells Me" Comfortably, like a scherzo. C minor to C major. The third movement, ...

Solemnly and measured, without dragging, very simple, like a folk-tune, once again somewhat more agitated, as at the start. A ...

Scherzo bases on Gustav Mahlers' Lied 6: Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt (Des Knaben Wunderhorn, 1892-1898). See Arnold Bocklin (1827-1901) ...

170 bars drafted in short score, the first 30 bars of which were also drafted in orchestral score. The Purgatorio ...

The third movement, in the form of a rondo, displays the final maturation of Mahler's contrapuntal skills. It opens with ...

Peacefully, somewhat slowly. Theme and variations. The third movement is a solemn processional march cast as a set of variations ...

The scherzo marks a return to the unrelenting march rhythms of the first movement, though in a 'triple-time' metrical context ...