- Birthday
- 1860-07-07
- Deathday
- 1911-05-18
- Place of Birth
- Kalitsch, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. [now in Czech Republic]
Gustav Mahler
SoundBiography
Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic 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 his compositions were rediscovered by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then becam...
