Gustav Mahler

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Austrian person composer human orchestral conductor

Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and conductor renowned for his expansive symphonies and song cycles that bridged the 19th-century tradition and early modernism.

Aliases (1)

Mahler ×1

Statements (68)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Austrian person → composer → human → orchestral conductor →
activeYearsEnd	1911 →
activeYearsStart	1880 →
burialPlace	Grinzing Cemetery →
causeOfDeath	bacterial endocarditis →
citizenship	Austria-Hungary → Austrian Empire →
conversionYear	1897 →
convertedFrom	Judaism →
countryOfBirth	Austrian Empire →
countryOfDeath	Austria-Hungary →
dateOfBirth	1860-07-07 →
dateOfDeath	1911-05-18 →
employer	Metropolitan Opera → New York Philharmonic → Vienna Court Opera →
ethnicGroup	Jewish →
familyName	Mahler →
fieldOfWork	classical music → orchestral music → vocal music →
fullName	Gustav Mahler →
genre	Lieder → orchestral song cycle → symphony →
givenName	Gustav →
influenced	Alban Berg → Anton Webern → Arnold Schoenberg → Benjamin Britten → Dmitri Shostakovich →
influencedBy	Johannes Brahms → Richard Wagner →
languageOfWork	German →
movement	early modernism → late Romanticism →
notableFeature	expanded symphonic form → integration of song and symphony → large orchestral forces →
notableStudent	Bruno Walter → Otto Klemperer →
notableWork	Das Lied von der Erde → Des Knaben Wunderhorn (song settings) → Kindertotenlieder → Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen → Rückert-Lieder → Symphony No. 1 in D major → Symphony No. 10 in F-sharp major → Symphony No. 2 in C minor "Resurrection" → Symphony No. 3 in D minor → Symphony No. 4 in G major → Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor → Symphony No. 6 in A minor "Tragic" → Symphony No. 7 in E minor → Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major "Symphony of a Thousand" → Symphony No. 9 in D major →
occupation	composer → conductor →
placeOfBirth	Bohemia → Kaliště →
placeOfDeath	Vienna →
positionHeld	director of the Vienna Court Opera →
primaryInstrument	piano →
religion	Roman Catholicism →
spouse	Alma Mahler →

Referenced by (11)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alma Mahler → Arnold Schoenberg → Leonard Bernstein → Max Steiner →	influencedBy
Hector Berlioz → Ludwig van Beethoven → Richard Wagner →	influenced
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra →	associatedWith
Gustav Mahler ("Mahler") →	familyName
Gustav Mahler →	fullName
Alma Mahler →	spouse