작곡가

:   Gustav Mahler (구스타프 말러)

장르

:  

Symphony

스타일

:  

Symphony

작곡년도

:   1908 - 1909

출판년도

:   1911 - 1912

초연

:   Nov 20, 1911

평균연주

:   61:51

악장

1

Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde (The Drinking Song of Earth's Sorrows)

8:28

2

Der Einsame im Herbst (The Solitary Autumn)

9:39

3

Von der Jugend (Of Youth)

3:21

4

Von der Schönheit (Of Beauty)

6:58

5

Der Trunkene im Frühling (The Drunkard in Spring)

4:31

6

Der Abschied (The Farewell)

28:03

Das Lied von der Erde ("The Song of the Earth") is a composition for two voices and orchestra by the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler between 1908 and 1909. The work was described as a symphony when published, and it comprises six songs for two singers who take turns singing the songs. Mahler specified the two singers should be a tenor and an alto, or else a tenor and a baritone if an alto is not available. The work was composed following the most painful period in Mahler's life, and the songs address themes such as those of living, parting and salvation. On the centenary of Mahler's birth, the composer, conductor, and known Mahler conductor Leonard Bernstein described Das Lied von der Erde as Mahler's "Greatest symphony".
Three personal disasters befell Mahler during the summer of 1907. Political maneuvering and anti-semitism forced him to resign his post as Director of the Vienna Court Opera, his eldest daughter Maria died from scarlet fever and diphtheria, and Mahler himself was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect. "With one stroke," he wrote to his friend Bruno Walter, "I have lost everything I have gained in terms of who I thought I was, and have to learn my first steps again like a newborn".

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