Search Results: Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) was an Austrian-Bohemian composer best known for his song-cycles and his grand, sweeping symphonies, which often require expanded orchestras for their full performance. Mahler, a composer of Late-Romantic music and...

Gustav Holst (1874-1934) was a British composer of Swedish origin most famous for his dramatic orchestral suite The Planets, first performed in public in 1919. Holst also composed several operas, wrote sacred choral works such as The Hymn...

A detail of an 1892 photograph by E. Bieber of the Bohemian-Austrian composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911).

A 1907 photograph by Moritz Nähr of the composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Taken in Vienna.

The grave of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) in Grinzing, Austria.

Gustav Mahler's 5th Symphony played by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan.

The small hut at Steinbach on Lake Attersee in Upper Austria where the composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) wrote music in the 1890s. Today the hut is a small museum dedicated to Mahler.

A series of silhouettes by Otto Böhler showing various conducting gestures made by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Taken from: Böhler, Otto (1914) Dr. Otto Böhler's Schattenbilder, Vienna, Austria: Wilhelm Lechner, pp. 20, III

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) was an Austrian composer, most famous for his nine grand symphonies and his church music. Never quite gaining full recognition for his work until he was in his sixties, Bruckner's music, with its strong spiritual...

A 1920 portrait of the British composer Gustav Holst (1874-1934) by William Rothenstein. Taken from, Music & Letters (Oxford University Press) Vol. 1, No. 3 (July, 1920), pp. 181-190.