Kindertotenlieder

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Kindertotenlieder is a song cycle for voice and orchestra by Gustav Mahler, setting Friedrich Rückert’s poems about the death of children to deeply introspective and elegiac music.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf orchestral song cycle
song cycle
associatedWithComposer Mahler’s middle period
authorOfText Friedrich Rückert
basedOn poems by Friedrich Rückert
catalogueNumber no official opus number
composer Gustav Mahler
compositionEndDate 1904
compositionStartDate 1901
countryOfOrigin Austria
firstConductor Gustav Mahler
firstPerformanceDate 1905-01-29
firstPerformancePlace Vienna
firstPerformerVoiceType baritone
genre Lieder
hasTheme consolation
grief
mourning
historicalContext early 20th century
influencedBy German Lied tradition
language German
mood elegiac
introspective
movement In diesem Wetter
Nun seh’ ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen
Nun will die Sonn’ so hell aufgeh’n
Oft denk’ ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen
Wenn dein Mütterlein
notableCharacteristic intimate expression of grief
sparse orchestration
notableVoiceTypes baritone
mezzo-soprano
numberOfSongs 5
orchestrationFeatures chamber-like orchestra
partOfRepertoire standard concert repertoire
publisher C. F. Kahnt
relatedWorkByComposer Rückert-Lieder
Symphony No. 5
Symphony No. 6
Symphony No. 7
scoredFor voice and orchestra
voice and piano
style orchestral song
subjectMatter death of children
textSource Kindertotenlieder self-linksurface differs
surface form: Kindertodtenlieder by Friedrich Rückert
tonalLanguage late-Romantic tonality
typicalDuration approximately 25 minutes
usesPoetryForm lyric poetry
workPeriod late Romantic

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Gustav Mahler notableWork Kindertotenlieder
Friedrich Rückert notableWork Kindertotenlieder
Friedrich Rückert inspiredWork Kindertotenlieder
this entity surface form: Kindertotenlieder (song cycle by Gustav Mahler)
Kindertotenlieder textSource Kindertotenlieder self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Kindertodtenlieder by Friedrich Rückert