![Movement 1: Bedachtig-nicht eilen-recht gemachlich](https://mahlerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/mov1sketcha500-150x150.jpg)
Moderately, not rushed, Sonata form. Flutes and sleigh bells open the unusually restrained first movement (and used later with a melodic theme known commonly as the 'bell theme', which helps define sections throughout the movement) often described as possessing classical poise. As would be expected for the first movement ...
![Movement 4: Lied: Das himmlische Leben (Sehr behaglich)](https://mahlerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/mov4a500-150x150.gif)
Was originally part of Des Knaben Wunderhorn. See: Introduction Des Knaben Wunderhorn, 12 songs number 3.
Very comfortably. Strophic. The fourth movement opens with a relaxed, bucolic scene in G major. A child, voiced by a soprano, presents a sunny, naive vision of Heaven and describes the ...