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Gustav Mahler

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Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.


— Gustav Mahler


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If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.


— Gustav Mahler


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The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.


— Gustav Mahler


#depressed #failure #go #guiding #life

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.


— Gustav Mahler


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It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.


— Gustav Mahler


#feels #first #forward #going #how

It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.


— Gustav Mahler


#just #new #pathway #previously #question

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.


— Gustav Mahler


#everything #like #must #symphony #world

An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.


— Gustav Mahler


#opera #simply #small

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.


— Gustav Mahler


#beauty #carefully #fullness #having #high

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.


— Gustav Mahler


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About Gustav Mahler

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Did you know about Gustav Mahler?

In his three seasons he had performed around 80 different works which included pieces by relatively unknown composers such as Hermann Goetz Wilhelm Kienzl and the Italian Lorenzo Perosi. A second daughter Anna was born in 1904. In spite of numerous theatrical triumphs Mahler's Vienna years were rarely smooth; his battles with singers and the house administration continued on and off for the whole of his tenure.

A Jew he was born in the village of Kalischt Bohemia in what was then the Austrian Empire now Kaliště in the Czech Republic. His family later removed to nearby Iglau (now Jihlava) where Mahler grew up. Aside from early works such as a movement from a piano quartet composed when he was a student in Vienna Mahler's works are designed for large orchestral forces symphonic choruses and operatic soloists.

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