Category Archives: Mahler

Leonore Rellee by Carl Fischer-Köystrand. Profession: Alto, Mezzo-soprano. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler at the Vienna State Opera. Correspondence with ...

Leontine Bruck (1883-1923). Profession: Singer. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 1883. Died: 1923. Buried: Prostejov, ...

Leopold Demuth (1861-1910). Profession: Bass-baritone Residences: Leipzig, Hamburg, Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 02-11-1861 Brno, Czech Republic ...

Leopold Landau (1841-1894). Profession: Tenor. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 21-06-1841 Varannó, Komitat Semplin, ...

No photo. Profession: Singer. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: Unknown.  Died: Unknown.  Buried: Unknown.  ...

Leopold Stolba (1863-1929). Profession: Textiles, Secession (member). Residences: Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 11-11-1863 Vienna, Austria. Died: 18-11-1929 ...

Leos Janacek (1854-1928) Profession: Composer. Residences: Prague, Vienna, Leipzig, Brno. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 03-07-1854 Hukvaldy, Czech ...

1880-1885: 5 years to represent Mahler in Bad Hall, Ljubljana, Olomouc and Kassel. Cost 5%. Gustav Lewy (1824-1901). Music publishers. Publication by Lewy music publishers. Joseph ...

Drinking song of the world's misery Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde.Key: a minor.Allegro pesante. (Cheerful heavy.)After Chinese poet: Li ...

Der Schildwache Nachtlied is a complex military-style song with trumpet calls and drum rolls, but it is also a dialogue ...

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 ...

Nun will die Sonn’ so hell aufgeh’n Nun will die Sonn’ so hell aufgeh’n Als sei kein Unglück die Nacht ...

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 ...

Also in Symphony No. 3 - Movement 5: Lied 2: Lustig im Tempo und keck im Ausdruck: Bimm bamm. Es ...

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 ...

“Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grun," (I went joyfully through a green wood), is a beautiful slow melody challenging ...

  Nun seh’ ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen   Nun seh’ ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen Ihr sprühet ...

Verlorene Müh' is another dialogue song, and it is in the distinctive Swabian dialect. It is a sort of fruitless ...

Winterlied is better organized, being based on a single unifying motive stated in the piano at the very beginning of ...

The majority of the songs in this collection begin with very soft dynamics. Eleven of the fourteen songs begin with ...

The third song in the collection, “Hans und Grethe” is a wonderful mixture of waltz-like fervor and sublime self-introspection. Many ...

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 ...

  Wenn dein Mütterlein Wenn dein Mütterlein tritt zur tür hinen, Und den Kopf ich drehe, ihr entgegensehe, Fällt auf ...

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! ...

The fourth song in the collection was inspired by Tirso de Molina, a poet and Spanish monk. The text from ...

One of the challenges with the ninth song in this collection, "Starke Einbildungskraft" (Strong imagination), concerns clarity of articulation. Sixteenth-note ...

Of beauty Von der Schonheit. Key: G Major. Comodo. Dolcissimo. (Comfortable. Very sweet.) After Chinese poet: Li Bai. Voice: Alto ...

Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht? is another pastoral setting and, as Verlorene Müh'; it is in 3/8 meter. It is ...

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 ...

In diesem Wetter In diesem Wetter, in diesem Braus, Nie hätt’ ich gesendet die Kinder hinaus! Man hat sie getragen ...

The text from both the “Serenade” and “Phantasie” come from Tirso de Molina’s 1630 play Don Juan. Mahler arranged both ...

The tenth song in this collection, “Zu Strassburg auf der Schanz” (At Strasbourg on the battlement), starts with a very ...

Misprints are rare, but this song contains one incorrect note in the piano part. In measure 3 of the IMC ...

The farewell Der Abschied.Key: C minor to C Major.Schwer. (Heavy).After Chinese poets: Mong Kao Yen and Wang Sei.Voice: Alto (or ...