100 Year Anniversary of the Death of Gustav Mahler

[Balthazar]

He died May 18, 1911.

From the Washington Post:

The very first note of Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony signals that you’re in for something on a whole new scale. It’s a single note, an A, in the strings, quiet and sustained, evoking the humid tang of sulfur in the air and the pregnant hush before rain. But that single note extends over seven octaves — that is, it’s being played from the lowest to the highest ranges in the orchestra. It’s at once tiny and huge and intensely personal. This is why Mahler, who died 100 years ago this week, remains one of today’s most popular symphonists: It’s this personal quality to his music, the sense that, at bottom, it’s really about you.

I agree with the sentiment. But I've always preferred the Second Symphony:

[haydnguy]

Thanks for pointing that out. Very pretty. The second is my favorite too, probably followed by the 5th.