![History Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen](https://mahlerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/gesellen_-938-150x150.jpg)
Composed Performances by Gustav Mahler
- First performance: Berlin, March 16, 1896, with the baritone Anton Sistermans (1867-1926). (Premiere).
![Introduction Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen](https://mahlerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/fahrendenroseliedtitelpiano-150x150.jpg)
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen ('Songs of a Wayfarer') is a song cycle by Gustav Mahler on his own texts. The cycle of four Lieder for low voice (often performed by women as well as men) was written around 1884-1885 in the wake of Mahler's unhappy love for soprano Johanna ...
![Lied 4: Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz](https://mahlerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/gesellenscore4400-150x150.jpg)
The final movement culminates in a resolution. The music, also reused in the First Symphony (in the Scherzo "Funeral March in Callot's manner"), is subdued and gentle, lyrical and often reminiscent of a chorale in its harmonies. Its title, "Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz" ("The Two Blue ...