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Gustav Mahler

Read through the most famous quotes from Gustav Mahler




I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.


— Gustav Mahler


#am #giving #head #hitting #i

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.


— Gustav Mahler


#better #certainly #different #different person #happier

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.


— Gustav Mahler


#count #delicacy #hope #i #lack

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.


— Gustav Mahler


#cannot #exchange #i #like #live

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.


— Gustav Mahler


#doomed #down #not perfect #perfect #perish

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.


— Gustav Mahler


#branches #cracking #existence #me #sterile

Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.


— Gustav Mahler


#destiny #happier #least #making #me

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.


— Gustav Mahler


#work

Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.


— Gustav Mahler


#even #hand #hat #me #people

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


— Gustav Mahler


#bother #composer #could #had #say






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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