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Gustav Mahler

Read through the most famous quotes from Gustav Mahler




Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.


— Gustav Mahler


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The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.


— Gustav Mahler


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The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.


— Gustav Mahler


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The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.


— Gustav Mahler


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The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.


— Gustav Mahler


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The real art of conducting consists in transitions.


— Gustav Mahler


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The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.


— Gustav Mahler


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There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.


— Gustav Mahler


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To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.


— Gustav Mahler


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What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.


— Gustav Mahler


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About Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler Quotes




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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