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First Name

Gustav

Last Name

Mahler

Height

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

07/07/1860

Build

Slim

Hair Color

Brown - Dark

Star Sign

Cancer

Date of Death

18 May 1911

Nationality

Austrian

Ethnicity

White

Claim to Fame

Das Lied von der Erde

Place of Birth

Austria

Place of Death

Vienna, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary

Cause of Death

Streptococcal blood infection

Couple Profile

Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austrian composer and conductor. He was best known during his own lifetime as one of the leading orchestral and operatic conductors of the day. He has since come to be acknowledged as among the most important late-Romantic/early-Modernist composers, although his music was never completely accepted by the musical establishment of Vienna while he was still alive. Mahler composed primarily symphonies and songs; however, his approach to genre often blurred the lines between orchestral Lied, symphony, and symphonic poem, most notably with his substantial song cycle, Das Lied von der Erde. In November 1901 he met Alma Schindler, the step-daughter of painter Carl Moll, at a social gathering that included the Secessionist painter Gustav Klimt and the theatre director Max Burckhard. Alma was, by her own account, not anxious to meet Mahler. on account of "the scandals about him and every young woman who aspired to sing in opera". However, after some lively conversation, and an animated disagreement about a ballet by Alexander von Zemlinsky (Alma was one of Zemlinsky`s pupils), they agreed to meet at the Hofoper the following day. This was followed by a rapid courtship; the couple were married on 9 March 1902, at a private ceremony in the sacristy of Vienna`s Karlskirche. Alma was by then pregnant with her first child, a daughter Maria Anna, who was born on 3 November 1902. A second daughter, Anna, would be born in 1904. In February 1911, during a long and demanding concert season in New York, Mahler fell seriously ill with a streptococcal blood infection, and conducted his last concert in a fever (the programme included the world premiere of Ferruccio Busoni`s Berceuse �l�giaque). Returning to Europe, he was taken to Paris, where a new serum had recently been developed. He did not respond, however, and was taken back to Vienna at his request. He died there from his infection on 18 May 1911 at the age of 50, leaving his Symphony No. 10 unfinished.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler

Wikipedia Text

Gustav Mahler (German pronunciation: 1860 � 1911) was a late-Romantic Austrian-Bohemian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer, he acted as a bridge between the 19th century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 the music was discovered and championed by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century.

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