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Composed Performances by Gustav Mahler
- Not known if he performed the songs (for Josephine Poisl (1860- after 1880)).
- 30-09-1934 Brno, World premiere. Radio Brno with Zdenek Knittl (tenor) and Alfred Eduard Rose (1902-1975) (piano).
- Three songs.
- Gustav Mahler originally planned 5 ...
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Composed Year 1880, these three songs are the first complete compositions of Mahler's to have survived. Mahler planned them as part of a cycle of five, the last two of which he never composed, most likely because he became preoccupied with his cantata Das klagende Lied. Mahler himself wrote all three ...
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Winterlied is better organized, being based on a single unifying motive stated in the piano at the very beginning of the song. In the central part of the song, the sixteenth-note accompaniment of the piano illustrates the spinning wheel mentioned in the text. Once again, Mahler draws upon Das klagende ...