Mahler: Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen

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Cat No: 8554164

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

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Barcode: 636943416426

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: MAHLER

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Gustav Mahler(1860-1911)Kindertotenlieder;Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; Ruckert-LiederThe great Viennese symphonic tradition found worthy successors in twocomposers of very different temperament and background, Anton Bruckner, the sonof a village schoolmaster, and Gustav Mahler. The latter, indeed, extended theform in an extraordinary way that has had a far-reaching effect on the courseof Western music. Mahler was heir to two great traditions, the tradition of thesymphony and the tradition of German song, combining the second with the firstin a remarkable synthesis. His music, in its all-encompassing variety, hasexercised a growing fascination over the musical consciousness of the twentiethcentury, with all its doubts, troubles and divisions.Mahler was to express succinctly enough his own position in the world.He saw himself as three times homeless, a Bohemian in Austria, an Austrianamong Germans and a Jew throughout the whole world. The second child in hisfamily, the first of fourteen to survive, he was born at Kaliste in Bohemia.Soon after his birth the family moved to Jihlava, where his father, by his ownvery considerable efforts, had raised himself from being little more than apedlar, with a desire for intellectual self-improvement, to the running of atavern and distillery. Mahler's musical abilities were developed first inJihlava, before a brief and unhappy period of schooling in Prague, followed bya later course of study at the Conservatory in Vienna, where he turned from thepiano to composition, and, as a necessary corollary, to conducting.It was as a conductor that Mahler made his career, at first at a seriesof provincial opera-houses, and later in Prague, Budapest and Hamburg, beforereaching the highest position of all when, in 1897, he became Kapellmeister ofthe Vienna Court Opera, two months after his baptism as a Catholic, a necessaryand perhaps not unwelcome preliminary. In Vienna he instituted significantreforms in the Court Opera but made enough enemies, particularly represented inthe anti-semitic press, to lead to his resignation in 1907, followed by a finalperiod conducting in America and elsewhere, in a vain attempt to secure hisfamily's future before his own imminent death, which took place shortly after hisreturn to Vienna, on 18th May, 1911.Although his career as a conductor involved him most closely with opera,Mahler attempted little composition in this field. His work as a composerconsists chiefly of his songs and of his ten symphonies, the last leftunfinished at his death, and his monumental setting of poems from the Chinesein Das Lied von der Erde ('The Song of the Earth'). His first songs datefrom the early 1880s and include various settings of verse of his own and ofother poets. He later turned his attention to Des Knaben Wunderhorn ('TheBoy's Magic Horn'), the influential collection of German folk-songs assembledin the first decade of the nineteenth century by Achim von Arnim and Clemensvon Brentano, the spirit of w
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