Gustav Mahler was best known in his lifetime as a leader of opera houses and as a conductor with a world wide reputation. During the opera a...

The Third Symphony was first sketched out with the help of a program as Mahler wrote down headings for each of the movements he planned. As ...

Gustav Mahler  worked his way up through many opera houses in Europe until he became director of the Vienna Court Opera , one of the most ...

Mahler's 'Big Bang' While Mahler was inspired in his compositions by Beethoven, Liszt, Bruckner and Wagner, like all of the m...

Des Knaben Wunderhorn or The Boy's Magic [Hunting]  Horn  is one of the most important early Romantic era collections of German poetry a...

As it was Gustav Mahler's habit to compose during his summer vacations, the 5th Symphony was composed in the summers of 1901 and 1902. T...

Mahler was most well-known in his lifetime as a conductor of opera and orchestral works. He did most of his compositional work on his su...