Category Archives: (1884-1885) Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, 4 songs
Composed Year 1884. Year 1885. Performances by Gustav Mahler First performance: Berlin, March 16, 1896, with the baritone Anton Sistermans ...
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen ('Songs of a Wayfarer') is a song cycle by Gustav Mahler on his own texts. The ...
The first movement is entitled "Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht" ("When My Sweetheart is Married"), and the text discusses the ...
The second movement, "Ging heut Morgen übers Feld" ("I Went This Morning over the Field"), contains the happiest music of ...
The third movement is a full display of despair. Entitled "Ich hab'ein glühend Messer" ("I Have a Gleaming Knife"), the ...
The final movement culminates in a resolution. The music, also reused in the First Symphony (in the Scherzo "Funeral March ...