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Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) was an Austrian-Bohemian composer best known for his song-cycles and his grand, sweeping symphonies, which often require expanded orchestras for their full performance. Mahler, a composer of Late-Romantic music and...
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Gustav Mahler by Bieber
A detail of an 1892 photograph by E. Bieber of the Bohemian-Austrian composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911).
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Grave of Gustav Mahler
The grave of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) in Grinzing, Austria.
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Gustav Mahler by Nähr
A 1907 photograph by Moritz Nähr of the composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Taken in Vienna.
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Gustav Mahler - Symphony No.5 in C-sharp minor
Gustav Mahler's 5th Symphony played by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan.
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Carl Gustav Jung
Photo of psychiatrist and philosopher Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961 CE).
Ortsmuseum Zollikon
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Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) was a composer of German birth who took French citizenship and became famous in Paris for his comic operettas, a genre he created, and for the more serious opera, The Tales of Hoffmann. A virtuoso cellist, conductor...
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Schubert by Klimt
An 1899 oil-on-canvas painting by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) showing the Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828) playing the piano. The painting was destroyed during the Second World War (1939-45).
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Mahler Conducting Gestures
A series of silhouettes by Otto Böhler showing various conducting gestures made by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911).
Taken from: Böhler, Otto (1914) Dr. Otto Böhler's Schattenbilder, Vienna, Austria: Wilhelm Lechner, pp. 20, III
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Mahler's Composing Hut, Steinbach
The small hut at Steinbach on Lake Attersee in Upper Austria where the composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) wrote music in the 1890s. Today the hut is a small museum dedicated to Mahler.