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Gustav Mahler was best known during his own lifetime as one of the leading orchestral and operatic conductors of the day.
He has since come to be acknowledged as among the most important late-Romantic composers, although his music was never completely accepted by the musical establishment of Vienna while he was still alive. Mahler is generally recognized as the last great German symphonist.

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The Mahler Chamber Orchestra The orchestra was founded in 1997 by the musicians themselves and Claudio Abbado, and the two have been reaching milestones of European musical life together ever since.


The Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester was founded in 1986 on the initiative of Claudio Abbado, now its music director, along with Thomas Angyan and Hans Landesmann in Vienna.


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Gustav Mahler was early recognized as one of the greatest conductors of his time. Yet he was highly controversial as a composer, both during his life and in the years after his death. In 1933, because of his Jewish roots, the Nazis prohibited his music both in Germany and in the occupied countries. His last refuge was then the Anglo-Saxon world. It is only in the sixties that little by little his music found its rightful place in concert repertories, thanks largely to recordings.
Mahler was long accused of being "banal" because of the heterogeneous nature of his melodic material and "sentimental" because of his expressiveness, which was thought to be self-indulgent. Today, his use of stylized folk material seems to be one of the most original and forward-looking aspects of his style. For us, he is an exceptional composer, not just because of the breadth and power of his ten symphonies, but also because of his place in history, right at the junction of two centuries and two eras—the romantic and the modern. His evolution is fascinating, from the First Symphony of his youth, which doesn’t resemble any other music of his time, all the way to the Ninth, which is very close to the future masterpieces of Berg and Webern.


Theodor Adorno said that Mahler was the first musician since Beethoven to have a "late style".
Today, Mahler is one of the most popular composers of our time. There are countless recordings of his works. A philosopher, a theoretician of music, a wide-ranging thinker, a mystic far removed from any dogma, he also stands as one of the most universal artists in history. His music eludes definition. It contains everything that makes a world, all that makes humanity: serenity and rebellion, compassion and sarcasm, lyricism and violence, subjectivity and objectivity, sincerity and ambiguity, compassion and derision, the sublime and the commonplace, intuition and reflection, heroism and confidence. The unfathomable complexity of his works has given rise to countless essays, studies, dissertations, articles and books.

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NATALIE BAUER-LECHNER
ÜBER INSTRUMENTATION
(1896)

Natalie Bauer-Lechner est un des témoins les plus importants sur Gustav Mahler; elle a été son amie intime de 1890 à 1901. De leur relation richement nourrie d'émotions musicales est né ce journal, régulièrement tenu par une femme éminemment sympathique qui était à la fois une violoniste professionnelle, une bonne observatrice et une chroniqueuse de talent. Ses Souvenirs de Gustav Mahler, très connu des spécialistes de Mahler, paraît ici pour la première fois en langue française. L'amateur de musique y trouvera une foule de détails biographiques très touchants et d'éléments poétiques ou techniques sur les œuvres de Mahler, jusqu'à la Cinquième Symphonie. Au chercheur, au musicologue, ce livre offre un trésor de citations. En complément, un article de Ernst Decsey, critique musical et ami de Mahler, nous raconte ses conversations avec le compositeur dans une période plus tardive, de 1906 à 1910; son style est très comparable à celui de Natalie Bauer-Lechner.


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GIUSEPPE
SINOPOLI
IN MEMORIAM


JEAN-PHILIPPE
RAMEAU
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SEVENTH'S SYMPHONY
STRUCTURE

by Dennis Ming-Yiu Wu


SYMPHONY NO. 8 (DE)


SYMPHONY NO. 9


SYMPHONY NO. 10 (EN)

SYMPHONY NO. 10 (ESP)

El hecho de que la Décima sinfonía de Mahler no aparezca a menudo en los programas de los conciertos se debe a que el compositor no la llegó a concluir -para tres de los cinco movimientos no existen sino bocetos y una trama básica.
Si bien Deryck Cooke, quien por ello



merece muchos méritos, descifró y editó este material en los años 60, de tal manera que la sinfonía pudiera ser ejecutada por una orquesta completa, siempre sigue quedando un sinsabor por la insatisfactoria impresión general: le faltaba tanto riqueza de sonido y fuerza como también plasticidad del concepto en su totalidad...

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TEXTS OF
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DAS KLAGENDE LIED
IL CANTO CHE CHIEDE GIUSTIZIA
THE DOLEFUL SONG

LIEDER EINES
FAHRENDEN GESELLEN

I CANTI DI UN GIRAMONDO
SONG OF A WAYFARER
CANCIONES DEL CAMINANTE
CHANT D'UN COMPAGNON ERRANT

DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN
DER SCHILDWACHE NACHTLIED
THE SENTINEL's NIGHTSONG
LA CANCION NOCTURNA DEL CENTINELA
CANTO NOTTURNO DELLA SENTINELLA
**
VERLOR'NE MÜH
LOST EFFORT
ESFUERZO PERDIDO

FATICA SPRECATA

TROST IM UNGLÜCK
CONFORT IN MISFORTUNE
CONSUELO EN LA DESGRACIA
CONFORTO NELL'INFELICITÀ

WER HAT DIES LIEDLEIN ERDACHT?
WHO THOUGHT UP THIS LITTLE SONG?
A QUIEN SE LE OCURRIO ESTA CANCIONILLA?
CHI HA INVENTATO QUESTA CANZONCINA?

DAS IRDISCHE LEBEN
MOTHER, OH MOTHER I'AM HUNGRY
MADRE, OH MADRE! TENGO HAMBRE
MAMMA, MAMMINA! HO TANTA FAME

DES ANTONIUS VON PADUA
FISCHPREDIGT
ST. ANTHONY SERMON TO THE FISCHES
EL SERMON DE SAN ANTONIO A LOS PECES
LA PREDICA DI SANT'ANTONIO AI PESCI

RHEINLEGENCHEN
RHINE LEGEND
LA LEYENDA DEL RIN
PICCOLA LEGGENDA RENANA

LIED DES VERGFOLGTEN IM TURM
SONG OF THE PERSECUTED IN THE TOWER
CANCION DEL PERSEGUIDO EN LA TORRE
CANTO DEL PRIGIONIERO NELLA TORRE

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SCULTURA DI AUGUSTE RODIN.
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Autograph manuscript of the full score [1903]
The Mary Flagler Cary Music
Collection Cary 509



Etching by Emil Orlik with
drypoint and aquatint, 1902
Plate/Image - 29.5 x 20 cm -
Sheet Size: 37 x 28.4 cm -
signed and dated 1903 in pencil


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