MUS 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Das Lied Von Der Erde, Gustav Mahler, New York Philharmonic
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Mahler(cid:495)s music acted as a bridge between 19th c. romanticism and early. Nine complete symphonies plus an incomplete 10th symphony and maybe 11th. Was superstitious because he thought that he would die early like beethoven. Das lied von der erde (the song of the earth) Music often not well received by audience or critics! Expansive, emotional weight to his orchestral music. Wasn(cid:495)t sure if he wanted people to know what the music was about all the time. German poems/songs collected and edited by achim von arnim and clemens. Published at the beginning of the 19th century. The two editors freely altered the folk songs, some hundreds of years old, to conform to the romantic conceptions of (cid:494)folk style(cid:495) Two of the se songs were later revised and used as the third and fourth. Des antonius von padua fischpredigt (cid:523)st. anthony of padua(cid:495)s sermon movements in the symphony no.
