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    Best of Mahler: six essential works bygd the great late Romantic

    Making any definitive selection of the best music of that great Romantic composer Gustav Mahler is both easy - and, conversely, quite the challenge.

    Easy, perhaps, because, on paper at least, Mahler's output is relatively small. Nine and a half symphonies, an orchestral song cycle, several further song cycles, a cantata and a piano quartet about cover it. And yet, in terms of both its emotional impact, and its influence on the direction of late 19th and early 20th century classical music, Mahler's musical output is huge.

    Beautifully conjuring up the nature and fresh air of Mahler's much-loved Alpine landscapes, his work also encompasses everything from marching bands to folk tunes (not for nothing did he once remark to his very different contemporary Jean Sibelius that 'a symphony must be like the world... it must embrace everything." That's the kind of outlook that makes it no surprise that another wit

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    Bachtrack top ten: Gustav Mahler

    “A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything,” Gustav Mahler told Jean Sibelius in 1907. Today, Mahler is best known for his lengthy symphonies, which did indeed “contain everything”, from the natural world to fin de siècle angst to ecstasy and resignation. But in his lifetime, Mahler was more famous as a conductor, including high profile appointments at the Stadttheater Hamburg, the Hofoper in Vienna, the Metropolitan Opera, then the New York Philharmonic. 

    Mahler was born in 1860 in Bohemia, then part of the Habsburg Empire. From humble beginnings, his father had built up a distillery and tavern business in Iglau, where young Gustav was introduced to music via street songs, dance tunes, folk melodies and military bands, sounds that would permeate his early symphonies in particular. A Jew, he often felt an outsider – “always an intruder, never welcomed” – particularl

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    Gustav Mahler

    Austro-Bohemian composer and conductor (1860–1911)

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    Gustav Mahler (German:[ˈɡʊstafˈmaːlɐ]ⓘ; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect, which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 his compositions were rediscovered by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century.

    Born in Bohemia (then part of the Austrian Empire) to Jewish parents of humble origins, the Ger