Gustav Mahler – Biographical information from the WeGA

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Gustav Mahler, photographed in 1907 by Moritz Nähr at the end of his period as director of the Vienna Hofoper (Source: Wikimedia)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_of_Gustav_Mahler_by_Moritz_N%C3%A4hr_01.jpg

Basic data

July 7, 1860 in Kalischt, Böhmen
†

May 18, 1911 in Wien
Komponist, Dirigent, Kapellmeister, Operndirektor
Bad Hall, Laibach, Olmütz, Kassel, Prag, Leipzig, Budapest, Hamburg, Wien, New York

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Gustav Mahler, photographed in 1907 by Moritz Nähr at the end of his period as director of the Vienna Hofoper (Source: Wikimedia)

Jihlava, the city where Mahler grew up (Source: Wikimedia)

Mahler was influenced by Richard Wagner during his student days, and later became a leading interpreter of Wagner's operas. (Source: Wikimedia)

Mahler's home in Leipzig, where he composed his First Symphony (Source: Wikimedia)

Mahler in 1892 (Source: Wikimedia)

Komponierhäuschen (German for 'composition hut') in Steinbach am Attersee, where Mahler composed in the summer from 1893 (Source: Wikimedia)

Hans von Bülow, an admirer of Mahler's conducting (Source: Wikimedia)

Vienna Hofoper (now Staatsoper), pictured in 1898 during Mahler's conductorship (Source: Wikimedia)

Mahler's conducting style, 1901, caricatured in the humour magazine Fliegende Blätter (Source: Wikimedia)

Plaque on Mahler's Vienna apartment, 2 Auenbruggergasse: "Gustav Mahler lived and composed in this house from 1898 to 1909" (Source: Wikimedia)

Silhouette by Otto Böhler (Source: Wikimedia)

Mahler's second composing hut, at Maiernigg (near Klagenfurt), on the shores of the Wörthersee in Carinthia (Source: Wikimedia)

Alma Schindler, who married Mahler in 1902 (from 1902, possibly earlier) (Source: Wikimedia)

1902 portrait by Emil Orlík (Source: Wikimedia)

Metropolitan Opera House (39th Street) in New York, at around the time of Mahler's conductorship (1908–09) (Source: Wikimedia)

Bronze bust of Mahler by Auguste Rodin, 1909 (Source: Wikimedia)

Mahler's grave in the Grinzing cemetery, Vienna (Source: Wikimedia)

Opening of Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, published 1897 in a version for voice and piano (Source: Wikimedia)

A satirical comment on Mahler's Sixth Symphony. The caption translates: "My God, I've forgotten the motor horn! Now I shall have to write another symphony." (Source: Wikimedia)

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Complete Works of Carl Maria von Weber. Digital Edition, https://weber-gesamtausgabe.de/A008935 (Version 4.9.1 of February 5, 2024)
Last change of this document on August 30, 2021

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