| Photo | Location | Age | Year | Composition | Revisions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Iglau | 5 | 1865 | First compositions (lost or destroyed) | |
| 14 | 1874 | Herzog Ernst von Schwaben opera (unfinished MS accidentally destroyed) | |||
| Vienna | 15 | 1876 | Piano Quartet (only the 1st movement survives) | ||
| 17 | 1877 | (piano-duet arrangement of Bruckner's 3rd Symphony with Krzyzanowski) | |||
| 1878 | (completed poem text of Das Klangende Lied) | ||||
 | 18 | Piano Quintet scherzo (MS lost) | |||
| 19 | 1880 | Im Lenz song (Mahler) | |||
| Winterlied song (Mahler) | |||||
| Maitanz im Grünen song (Mahler) | |||||
| 20 | Das klagende Lied ['the lamenting song'] cantata (text by Mahler) | ||||
| 19 | 1879 | Starts Rübezahl opera | |||
 | 22 | 1882 | Rübezahl opera (unfinished MS lost or destroyed libretto by Mahler) | ||
| 23 | 1883 | Frühlingsmorgen (Richard Leander) #1 of Lieder und Gesänge part 1 | |||
| Erinnerung (Richard Leander) #2 of Lieder und Gesänge part 1 | |||||
| Hans und Grete (Mahler) #3 of Lieder und Gesänge part 1[music identical with Maitanz im Grünen -- see 1880] | |||||
| Serenade aus Don Juan (Tirso de Molina) #4 of Lieder und Gesänge part 1 | |||||
| Phantasie aus Don Juan (Tirso de Molina) #5 of Lieder und Gesänge part 1 | |||||
 | Kassel | 1884 | Der Trompeter von Sakkingen incidental music to "tableaux vivants" (includes "Blumine" serenade) | ||
| 24 | Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht (Mahler) #1 of Lieder Eines fahrenden Gesellen | ||||
| Ging heut' morgens übers Feld (Mahler) #2 of Lieder Eines fahrenden Gesellen | |||||
| Ich hab' ein glühend' Messer (Mahler) #3 of Lieder Eines fahrenden Gesellen | |||||
| Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz (Mahler) #4 of Lieder Eines fahrenden Gesellen | |||||
 | Leipzig | 27 | 1887 | Die Drei Pintos opera (completion of Carl Maria von Weber's sketches) | |
| Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) #1 of Lieder und Gesänge part 2 | |||||
| Ich ging mit Lust (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) #2 of Lieder und Gesänge part 2 | |||||
| Aus! Aus! (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) #3 of Lieder und Gesänge part 2 | |||||
| Starke Einbildungskraft (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) #4 of Lieder und Gesänge part 2 | |||||
| Zu Strassburg auf der Schanz (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) #1 of Lieder und Gesänge part 3 | |||||
| Ablösung im Sommer (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) #2 of Lieder und Gesänge part 3 | |||||
| Scheiden und Meiden (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) #3 of Lieder und Gesänge part 3 | |||||
| Nicht Wiedersehen! (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) #4 of Lieder und Gesänge part 3 | |||||
| Selbstgefühl (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) #5 of Lieder und Gesänge part 3 | |||||
| 27 | 1888 | Symphonic Poem (later the 1st Symphony) | |||
| 28 | Symphony in C-minor 1st movement (later Todtenfeier still later 2nd Symphony 1st movement) | ||||
| Budapest | 29 | 1889 | 2nd version of Symphonic Poem ("1st Symphony") | ||
 | Hamburg | 31 | 1892 | Der Schildwache Nachtlied ['the night watchman's song'] orchestral song #1 of Humoresken (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) | |
| Verlor'ne Müh ['wasted effort'] orchestral song #2 of Humoresken (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) | |||||
| Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht? ['who made up this little song?'] orchestral song #3 of Humoresken (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) | |||||
| Das himmlische Leben ['the heavenly life'] (later used as finale to the 4th Symphony) orchestral song #4 of Humoresken (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) | |||||
| Trost im Unglück ['comfort in unhappiness'] orchestral song #5 of Humoresken (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) | |||||
| 32 | Urlicht (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) later used for 2nd Symphony 4th movement | ||||
| 32 | 1893 | Titan 3rd version of "1st Symphony" | |||
| Das irdische Leben orchestral song (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) | |||||
| Steinbach | 33 | 2nd Symphony 2nd and 3rd movements | |||
| Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt orchestral song (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) basis of 2nd Symphony. 3rd movement | |||||
| Rheinlegendchen orchestral song (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) | |||||
| Hamburg | 2nd version of Das klagende Lied eliminating Waldmärchen | ||||
 | 1894 | 2nd Symphony 5th movement | |||
| 4th version of 1st Symphony | |||||
| Steinbach | 35 | 1895 | 3rd Symphony 2nd movement | ||
| 3rd Symphony 3rd movement | |||||
| 3rd Symphony 4th movement (Nietzsche) | |||||
| 3rd Symphony 5th movement (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) | |||||
| 3rd Symphony 6th movement | |||||
| Lob des hohen Verstandes orchestral song (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) | |||||
| 36 | 1896 | 3rd Symphony 1st movement | |||
| 5th version of 1st Symphony | |||||
| 6th version of 1st Symphony | |||||
 | Vienna | 37 | 1898 | 3rd version of Das klagende Lied | |
| Vahrn | 38 | Lied des Verfolgten im Turm ['song of the prisoner in the tower'] orchestral song (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) | |||
| Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen ['where the proud trumpets blow'] orchestral song (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) | |||||
| ? - orchestral song (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) | |||||
 | Vienna | 1899 | 4th (final) version of Das klagende Lied | ||
| Revision of 3rd Symphony | |||||
| Aussee | 39 | Revelge orchestral song (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) | |||
| 4th Symphony 1st movement | |||||
| 4th Symphony 2nd movement | |||||
| Maiernigg | 40 | 1900 | 4th Symphony 3rd movement | ||
| 41 | 1901 | Der Tamboursg'sell orchestral song (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) | |||
| Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder! orchestral song (Rückert) | |||||
| Ich atmet' einen linden Duft orchestral song (Rückert) | |||||
| Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen orchestral song (Rückert) | |||||
| Um Mitternacht orchestral song (Rückert) | |||||
| Nun will die Sonn; so hell aufgeh'n orchestral song (Rückert) #1 of Kindertotenlieder | |||||
| Wenn dein Mütterlein orchestral song (Rückert) #3 of Kindertotenlieder | |||||
| Oft denk; ich sie sind nur ausgegangen orchestral song (Rückert) #4 of Kindertotenlieder | |||||
| 5th Symphony 1st movement (funeral march) | |||||
| 5th Symphony 2nd movement | |||||
| 5th Symphony 3rd movement (scherzo) | |||||
| 42 | 1902 | Liebst du um Schönheit orchestral song (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) | |||
| 5th Symphony 4th movement ("Adagietto") | |||||
| 5th Symphony 5th movement | |||||
 | 43 | 1903 | 6th Symphony 1st movement | ||
| 6th Symphony 2nd movement | |||||
| 6th Symphony 3rd movement | |||||
 | 44 | 1904 | Nun seh' ich wohl warum so dunkle Flammen orchestral song (Rückert) #2 of Kindertotenlieder | ||
| In diesem Wetter orchestral song (Rückert) #5 of Kindertotenlieder | |||||
| 6th Symphony 4th movement | |||||
| 7th Symphony 2nd movement ("Nachtmusik I") | |||||
| 7th Symphony 4th movement ("Nachtmusik II") | |||||
| 2nd version of 5th Symphony | |||||
 | 45 | 1905 | 7th Symphony 3rd movement | ||
| 7th Symphony 5th movement | |||||
| 7th Symphony 1st movement | |||||
 | 46 | 1906 | 8th Symphony | ||
 | Toblach | 48 | 1908 | Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde #1 of Das Lied von der Erde | |
| Der Einsame Im Herbst #2 of Das Lied von der Erde | |||||
| Von Der Jugend #3 of Das Lied von der Erde | |||||
| Von Der Schonheit #4 of Das Lied von der Erde | |||||
| Der Trunkene Im Fruhling #5 of Das Lied von der Erde | |||||
| Der Abschied #6 of Das Lied von der Erde | |||||
| 2nd version of 7th Symphony | |||||
 | 1909 | 3rd version of 7th Symphony | |||
| 9th Symphony 1st movement | |||||
| 49 | 9th Symphony 2nd movement | ||||
| 9th Symphony 3rd movement | |||||
| 9th Symphony 4th movement | |||||
| 4th (final) version of 7th Symphony | |||||
 | 50 | 1910 | 10th Symphony 1st movement | ||
| 10th Symphony 2nd movement | |||||
| 10th Symphony 3rd movement (unfinished) | |||||
| 10th Symphony 4th movement (unfinished) | |||||
| 10th Symphony 5th movement (unfinished) | |||||
| 1911 | 3nd (final) version of 5th Symphony |
