Category Archives: Mahler

Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt, in 3/8 time, is best known as the source for the music of the scherzo ...

Rheinlegendchen is perhaps the most tender of the settings and, as many others of a pastoral nature, employs a 3/8 ...

“Scheiden und Meiden” (Partings) explores the metric juxtaposition of two versus three used in “Ablösung im Sommer.” “Trumpetlike” is the ...

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 ...

Liederkranz Club 111-119 East 58th Street. Mahler invited the entire orchestra to the Liederkranz Club for a after-concert-snack, after a ...

Lilli Lehmann (1848-1929). Profession: Soprano, singing teacher. Residences: Berlin. Relation to Mahler: Worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Yes ...

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

No photo. Lilly Lieser (1875-1943). Profession: Patron of the arts in Vienna. Friend of Alma Mahler (1879-1964). Relation to Mahler: ...

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

Transcript In the original version of the first Symphony written in 1889, a movement that Mahler entitled Blumina, to follow ...

Transcript In its grand design, thematic content and conceptual framework, the first movement of the 10th is a worthy successor ...

Transcript In this extensive first movement, which lasts nearly half an hour, Mahler presents the positive characteristics of his hero ...

Transcript Mahler begins the first movement virtually in the same manner as he opened Der Spielmann from Das Klagende Lied ...

Transcript Typical of Mahler symphonies, the first movement presents a conflict between theme groups that function as antagonists, which builds ...

Transcript The light-hearted effervescent atmosphere of the first movement recalls the music of Mozart and Haydn, while it's gently flowing ...

Transcript In his most extensive orchestral movement, Mahler presents a conflict between life affirming and life negating forces in the ...

Transcript Mahler opens the first movement by creating an atmosphere unique in his time for the beginning of a symphony ...

Transcript In part one, Mahler sets a medieval latin hymn to music in one of his most directly expressive and ...

Transcript The beginning of Symphony with a funeral march may well be considered typically malaria. Both the second and third ...

Transcript The grace and delicacy of the second movement seem Worlds Apart from the terrifying power and tragic character of ...

Transcript In the second movement Mahler once again indulges his penchant for parody for the use of popular dance music ...

Transcript Mahler scherzo movement is as eerie and grotesque, as the first movement is lighthearted and parodistic. It features a ...

Transcript With the elimination of the Blumine Movement, a second fast movement follows the first. Mahler may have considered the ...

Transcript Like the finale, the second movement is a puzzle to many critics, focusing upon Mahler's title for the movement ...

Transcript It is obvious from the outset that the scherzo movement caricature is the march of the first movement. But ...

Transcript Second movement we'll call scherzo one is one of Mahler's most original scherzo's, intended at first to be a ...

Transcript The second movement is a violent reaction to the tragic nature of human destiny, expressed in the first movement ...

Transcript Mahler asks for a pause between the first and second movements, as he had done between the first two ...

Transcript Judging by the atmosphere established at the beginning, it will appear that this movement achieves a perfect state of ...

Transcript Taken together, the second and third movements are Mahler's most fascinating symphonic representations of nature. They come close to ...

At the end of the Scherzo movement in the symphony original version, Mahler suggests a suitable pause before the next ...

Transcript Three particular aspects of the scherzo movement should be mentioned at the outset. First, Mahler uses one of his ...

Transcript The so called Purgatorio movement is the shortest of any of Mahler's, purely symphonic movements lasting little more than ...

Transcript Although this movement is by far the longest in the symphony, it is not the symphony's focal point, that ...

Transcript What a shocking change of mood this scherzo moving brings in the wake of part one. Gone are its ...

Transcript Scherzo's movement of the Seventh Symphony is Mahler's dance macabre, a ghost-like nightmarish fantasy that contrasts a spiderweb of ...

Transcript Mahler inserted early, one of the original wonder horn songs, as both a brief Intermezzo between the scherzo in ...

Transcript The adagietto is undoubtedly the single best-known piece of Mahler's music. Its popularity skyrocketed primarily as a result of ...

Transcript Having been subjected to the raging violence, manic fury and sneering mockery of the rondo burlesque, the human spirit ...

Transcript In the progression of life forms that Mahler sought to characterize in the Third Symphony, man stands midway between ...

Transcript The idea of concluding a symphony with a song movement is most unusual, and may even be unique. Mahler ...

Transcript The Fourth Movement and titled "Nachtmusik" as was the second, is everything implied by its principal temporal direction on ...