Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler (July 7, 1860–May 18, 1911) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and conductor.

Works

Symphonies

• Symphony No. 1 in D major, "Titan" (1884–1888)
• Symphony No. 2 in C minor, "Resurrection" (1888–1894)
• Symphony No. 3 in D minor (1895–1896)
• Symphony No. 4 in G major, "Ode to Heavenly Joy" (1899–1901)
• Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor, "The Giant" (1901–1902)
• Note: While the symphony begins in the advertised c-sharp minor, it should be noted that the composer himself wrote, in a letter to his publisher: "it is difficult to speak of a key for the whole symphony, and to avoid misunderstandings the key should best be omitted."
• Symphony No. 6 in A minor, "Tragic" (1903–1904)
• Symphony No. 7 in E minor, "Song of the Night" (1904–1905)
• Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major, "Symphony of a Thousand" (1906)
• Note: The subtitles for the seventh and eight symphonies were not by Mahler. The composer, in fact, strongly objected to the subtitle for the eighth symphony.
• Symphony No. 9 in D major (1909–1910)
• Symphony No. 10 in F-sharp minor (1910–1911), incomplete
• Various completions by:
• Adagio and Purgatorio prepared for performance by Ernst Krenek (1924)
• Deryck Cooke, assisted by Berthold Goldschmidt, Colin Matthews and David Matthews (1960, 1964, 1976, 1989)
• Joseph Wheeler (1948–1965)
• Clinton Carpenter (1966)
• Remo Mazzetti, Jr. (1989)
• Rudolf Barshai (2000)
• The duo of Nicola Samale and Giuseppe Mazzucca (2002)
• Note: several prominent Mahler conductors have, for various reasons, refused to perform the completed tenth symphony, most notably Bruno Walter and Leonard Bernstein. As well, Cooke was always careful to describe his editions as "performing version(s) of the sketches" rather than any kind of "completion".

Vocal works

• Das klagende Lied, (1880)
• Drei Lieder, three songs for tenor and piano, (1880)
• Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit, fourteen songs with piano accompaniment, (1880–1890)
• Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer), for voice with piano or orchestral accompaniment, (1883–1885)
• Lieder aus "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" (The Youth's Magic Horn), for voice and orchestra, (1888–1896, two others 1899 and 1901)
• Rückert Lieder, for voice with piano or orchestral accompaniment, (1901–1902)
• Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children), for voice and orchestra, (1901–1904)
• Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), song cycle-symphony (1907–1909)
• Note: this work can be classified as both a symphony and a song cycle. Mahler avoided numbering it as a symphony due to his superstitious fear of the curse of the ninth.