Blumenstuck
Symphony No. 3. Movement 2: Tempo di minuetto. Sehr massig. Year 1896: 11-04-1896: Completes orchestration of Movement 2 of Symphony No. 3. Year 1896: 09-11-1896: Music from Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 was first heard in concert when Arthur Nikisch (1855-1922) conducted Movement 2 under the title ‘Blumenstuck‘ (‘Flower Piece’) in Berlin with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO). Year […]
Titan
Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763-1825), who wrote under the pseudonym Jean Paul (1763-1825), is known to have been Mahler’s favorite author. It was he who wrote the novel Titan that briefly lent its name to Symphony No. 1 – a name by which it is again known today. For the 1893 Hamburg and 1894 Weimar performances, Mahler gave the […]
Todtenfeier
The ink was barely dry on the score of Symphony No. 1 in 1888 when Mahler began to toy with the idea of a new large symphonic work in c. The opening movement was soon completed and named Todtenfeier (Funeral Ceremony), but it then languished among his papers until 1891, the year in which he left the […]