The German composer and conductor Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) wrote Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) during the tumultuous and difficult final years of his life. Politics… Mahler is a ...

Gustav Mahler’s wife, Alma, worried her husband would curse their family by finishing his song cycle, “Kindertotenlieder.” Unfortunately, her fears came true. The Austrian composer and conductor was ...

A Wynton Marsalis symphony, a “Das Lied von der Erde” with Christian Gerhaher and Piotr Beczala, and a Paola Prestini opera are among the highlights. Performing Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, the superstar ...

There were only two pieces on the San Diego Symphony’s program for the second weekend of the first season in the newly renovated Jacobs Music Center. But one of them was Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, ...

After the première of Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony at the 1902 Krefeld Festival in Germany, one reviewer concluded that “the composer should be shot.” The first Vienna performance of Mahler’s Fourth ...