Leopold Stokowski | Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra at the March 2, 1916 American premiere of Gustav Mahler | Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand | 8th Symphony.

The influence of Gustav Mahler was particularly innovational ; in his later symphonies, such as the mammoth Symphony No. 8, Mahler pushes the furthest boundaries of orchestral size, employing huge forces.

* Titan, working title of Symphony No. 1 ( Mahler )

Mahler did not live to perform his Das Lied von der Erde or Symphony No. 9, but his widow, Alma Mahler, asked Walter to premiere both.

Since Mahler himself never conducted the Ninth Symphony and Das Lied von der Erde, Walter's performances cannot be taken as documentations of Mahler's interpretations.

* 1938: Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 9, with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 1908, Gustav Mahler led the orchestra in the world premiere of his Symphony No. 7.

:* 2001 – " Ensemble / Orchestral Album of the Year " – Sir Simon Rattle, Mahler: Symphony No. 10 ( EMI, 2000 )

:* 2003 – " Ensemble / Orchestral Album of the Year " – Sir Simon Rattle, Mahler: Symphony No. 5 ( EMI, 2002 )

:* 1993 – Best Orchestral Recording – Leonard Bernstein, Mahler: Symphony No. 9 ( DGG, 1992 ; recording 1979 )

:* 2001 – Best Orchestral Performance – Sir Simon Rattle, Mahler: Symphony No. 10 ( EMI, 2000 )

:* 1981 – " Orchestral Record of the Year " – Herbert von Karajan, Mahler: Symphony No. 9 ( DGG, 1980 )

:* 1984 – " Record of the Year " – Herbert von Karajan, Mahler: Symphony No. 9 ( DGG, 1984 ; live recording 1982 )

:* 2000 – " Orchestral Record of the Year " – Sir Simon Rattle, Mahler: Symphony No. 10 ( EMI, 2000 )

:* 2006 – " Record of the Year " – Claudio Abbado, Mahler: Symphony No. 6 ( DGG, 2005 )

:* 2006 – Sinfonische Einspielung – Claudio Abbado: Mahler, Symphony No. 6 ( DGG, 2005 )

She conducted all of the Mahler symphonies except the Symphony No. 8.

* 1995 Mahler: Symphony No. 2

* 2010 Mahler: Symphony No. 8 & Adagio from Symphony No. 10

* 2006 Mahler: Symphony No. 7

* 2004 Mahler: Symphony No. 3 ; Kindertotenlieder

Gustav Mahler introduced the practice, common until the middle of the twentieth century, of performing " Leonore No. 3 " between the two scenes of the second act.

* 2010 Mahler: Symphony No. 8 & Adagio from Symphony No. 10

Of course, I shall conduct Mahler and Bruckner works in the coming season, as usual.

My Pittsburghers have become real addicts to Mahler and Bruckner ''.

`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.

Musical composition embodying angst as a primary theme have primarily come from European Jewish composers such as Gustav Mahler and Alban Berg, written during the period of great persecution of the Jewish people shortly before and during the period of Nazi activity in Europe.

However, it is the Jewish artists, Gustav Mahler and Franz Kafka in music and literature that have embraced the theme of angst so highly in their work that they have become synonymous with the term to the point of popular joking and cartoons today.

The effect of angst is achieved by Shostakovich, Mahler and Berg in compositions of wide dynamic range, at times seemingly spinning out of control ( Mahler ), and atonal music using the twelve-tone row method of composition ( Berg, Schoenberg and others ) to create an angst ridden atmosphere of grotesque sound.

The Violin Concerto was dedicated " to the memory of an Angel ", Manon Gropius, the deceased daughter of architect Walter Gropius and Alma Mahler.

In the Romantic era and the 20th century, composers such as Wagner, Mahler, Beethoven, Busoni, and Prokofiev also requested notes below the low E. There are two common methods for making these notes available to the player.

He beat 13 other applicants and obtained a post as cellist with the Vienna Court Opera Orchestra, where he played until 1914, often under Gustav Mahler.

Mahler habitually had Schmidt play all the cello solos, even though Friedrich Buxbaum was the principal cellist.

His works are monumental in form and firmly tonal in language, though quite often innovative in their designs and clearly open to some of the new developments in musical syntax initiated by Mahler and Schoenberg.

* 1860 – Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer ( d. 1911 )

Adams once claimed that originality wasn't an urgent concern for him the way it was necessary for the minimalists, and compared his position to that of Gustav Mahler, J. S. Bach, and Johannes Brahms, who " were standing at the end of an era and were embracing all of the evolutions that occurred over the previous thirty to fifty years.

As a composer, Hartmann attempted a difficult synthesis of many different idioms, including musical Expressionism and jazz stylization, into organic symphonic forms in the tradition of Bruckner and Mahler.

Bach, the profound expressive irony of Mahler, the neoclassicism of Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith.

Artists such as Klimt and Cézanne, and composers such as Mahler and Richard Strauss were " the terrible moderns "— those more avant-garde were more heard of than heard.

A child prodigy in composing, Steiner received piano instruction from Johannes Brahms and, at the age of sixteen, enrolled at the Imperial Academy of Music ( now known as the University of Music and Performing Arts ), where he was taught by Gustav Mahler among others.

* Brueghel ( Jere Burns ), an intelligent, sociopathic criminal-for-hire who, along with Mahler, makes money disposing of corpses for other criminals by selling them to body banks around the city.

* Mahler ( Rick Ducommun ), Brueghel's accomplice, who serves primarily as the muscle of the duo's body-harvesting operation.

In " Dream Thieves ", it is revealed that Brueghel killed Mahler and sold off his body during a slow night of business, and replaced him with a new man whom he nicknamed " Mahler " as a mocking tribute.