Category Archives: Compositions
The Symphony No. 6 in A minor by Gustav Mahler, sometimes referred to as the Tragische ("Tragic"), was composed between ...
Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 7 was written in Year 1904 and Year 1905, with repeated revisions to the scoring. Although the ...
Symphony in two parts for large orchestra, eight soloists, two mixed choirs and boys'choir. "Try to imagine the whole universe ...
Among the manuscripts preserving the earliest stages of the composition of Symphony No. 7, a most important group of sketches ...
Drinking song of the world's misery Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde.Key: a minor.Allegro pesante. (Cheerful heavy.)After Chinese poet: Li ...
The first song in the Mahler collection, “Fruhlingsmorgen” (Spring morning), incorporates text written by Richard Leander. As notated in the ...
Im Lenz (Spring) alternates a lively musical idea for the first and third stanzas with a more mysterious passage for ...
Revelge is the most intense and manic of the Wunderhorn settings, and also by far the most extended. It is ...
This song is the first of the Wunderhorn Lieder for Voice and Piano. It is titled “Um sclimme Kinder artig ...
A beautiful, but proud queen would like to get married but do not know who. She conceives of a competition: ...
The first movement is entitled "Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht" ("When My Sweetheart is Married"), and the text discusses the ...
Lob des hohen Verstandes is, like the Fischpredigt, a satirical song. It is of a jolly nature, describing a singing ...
Also in Symphony No. 2 - Movement 4: "Urlicht". Sehr feierlich, aber schlicht. Text Lied 11: Urlicht written in 1905 ...
The lonely man in autumn Der Einsame im Herbst.Key: d minor.Etwas schleppend. Ermudet. (Somewhat dragging. Weary.)After Chinese poet: Qian Qi.Voice: ...
A minstrel that runs through the forest finds a bone under a tree, and cuts a flute. When he plays ...
Tamboursg'sell is the last composed of Mahler's Wunderhorn settings. Like Revelge, it is sung by a doomed drummer. Rather than ...
The second song in the collection, “Erinnerung” (Remembrance), contains text by Richard Leander. Curiously, this song starts in F minor ...
The second movement, "Ging heut Morgen übers Feld" ("I Went This Morning over the Field"), contains the happiest music of ...
Winterlied is better organized, being based on a single unifying motive stated in the piano at the very beginning of ...
On the day that the minstrel arrives at the castle there is just a party going on for the occasion ...
The third movement is a full display of despair. Entitled "Ich hab'ein glühend Messer" ("I Have a Gleaming Knife"), the ...
The final surviving song of the set, Maitanz im Grünen (May Dance on the Green) is an early version of ...
Trost im Unglück describes the feelings of somebody trying to move past a lost or rejected love, comforting himself with ...
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 ...
The final movement culminates in a resolution. The music, also reused in the First Symphony (in the Scherzo "Funeral March ...
Score Kindertotenlieder - Lied 4: Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen Oft denk ich sie sind nur ausgegangen! ...
Of beauty Von der Schonheit. Key: G Major. Comodo. Dolcissimo. (Comfortable. Very sweet.) After Chinese poet: Li Bai. Voice: Alto ...
Das irdische Leben is a grim little piece, perhaps providing the negative counterpart to Das himmlische Leben, the song that ...
The drunk man in spring Der Trunkene im Fruhling.Key: A Major.Second scherzo.Allegro. Keck, aber nicht zu schnell. (Audacious, but not ...
The farewell Der Abschied.Key: C minor to C Major.Schwer. (Heavy).After Chinese poets: Mong Kao Yen and Wang Sei.Voice: Alto (or ...
