Biography
“Imagine the world starting to sing and resound,” Mahler published of his Symphony Simply no. 8, the “Symphony of one thousand.” “It really is no longer human being voices; it really is planets and suns revolving.” Mahler was past due Romantic music’s greatest big thinker. In his personal life time he was generally seen as a conductor who made up privately, producing large, bizarre symphonies approved only by way of a cult pursuing. Created in 1860, in Kalischt, Bohemia, he originated from a middle-class family members. He inserted the Vienna Conservatory in 1875, learning piano, tranquility, and composition within a musically conventional atmosphere. Even so, he became a supporter of Wagner and Bruckner, both of whose functions he would afterwards conduct often, and became section of a public circle thinking about socialism, Nietzschean school of thought, and pan-Germanism. Around 1880, he started performing and composed his first older function, Das klagende Lied. Mahler’s performing career advanced quickly, shifting him from Kassel to Prague to Leipzig to Budapest; he was generally either greatly reputed or completely despised with the performers for his exacting rehearsals and perfectionism. In 1897 he became music movie director from the Vienna Courtroom Opera and, a year afterwards, from the Vienna Philharmonic. Mahler’s performing career permitted structure only through the summers, in some “composing huts” he previously built-in picturesque rural places. He finished his initial symphony in 1888, nonetheless it fulfilled with utter market incomprehension. He reserved this time around for symphonies, most of them large-scale functions, and melody cycles. In Das Lied von der Erde (The Melody of the planet earth), he merged both forms into an huge song-symphony. The Viennese open public largely didn’t understand his music, but Mahler had taken their reactions calmly, accurately predicting that “My period will yet arrive.” On the other hand, his autocratic methods being a conductor alienated music artists. In 1901, the press as well as the music artists essentially compelled his resignation through the Philharmonic. He wedded a young structure college student, Alma Schindler in 1902, plus they quickly got two daughters. By 1907 Mahler was significantly from Vienna, performing his own functions, and therefore he resigned through the opera aswell. Just after receiving the positioning of primary conductor of New York’s Metropolitan Opera, but before departing Vienna, Mahler’s old daughter, age group 4, passed away from scarlet fever and diphtheria, and he discovered he himself got a defective center valve. In NY, he was impressed by the grade of skill and quickly obtained audience authorization. In 1909 he became conductor of the brand new York Philharmonic, which he discovered a lot more agreeable compared to the opera function by this time around. The following calendar year, he previously a triumphant premiere of his substantial Symphony No. 8 in Munich. Regardless of the professional successes, his personal lifestyle experienced another blow when his and Alma’s relationship began having troubles. They stayed jointly, and after he became sick in Feb 1911, she noticed to it that he managed to get back again to Vienna, where he passed away on, may 18. The conductors Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer, Willem Mengelberg, and Maurice Abravanel held Mahler’s legacy alive, and Mahler’s are actually being among the most documented of any symphonies. His regular incorporation of vocal components into symphonic composing brought to complete fruition an activity that had started with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, demonstrating his music’s company roots within the Germanic traditional tradition. However, it had been his large tapestries of moving moods and shades, which range from tragedy to bitter irony (frequently explicitly indicated in efficiency directions), from café music to evocations from the sublime, that portended a hundred years where multiplicity ruled.
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1 | Reportedly, actor Dirk Bogarde based his appearance and his portrayal in "Death in Venice" on Gustav Mahler. |
2 | Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 383-384. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. |
3 | Two daughters with Alma Mahler, Maria Anna (1902-1907) and Anna Justina (1904-1988). |
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Irreversible | 2002 | writer: "Symphony No. 9 in D Major - Adagio" - as Mahler | |
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary | 2002 | "Symphony #1 excerpts", "Symphony #2 excerpts" | |
Le pornographe | 2001 | music: "SYMPHONIE No7 Finale et SYMPHONIE No9" - as G. Mahler | |
Waterboys | 2001 | music: "SYMPHONY NO.5 IN C-SHARP MINOR -- 4th MOVEMENT" | |
Elegiya dorogi | 2001 | Documentary writer: "Unknown musical piece" | |
Eden | 2001/I | writer: "Langsam schleppend wie ein Naturlaut Symphony n°1" | |
Six Feet Under | 2001 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
Bride of the Wind | 2001 | writer: "Rückert-Lieder: No. 5, Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" | |
Tod Browning and Lon Chaney | 2000 | TV Movie documentary writer: "Symphony N°5" | |
Under the Sand | 2000 | music: "Symphonie no 2 en do mineur - Résurrection" - as G.Mahler | |
Before Night Falls | 2000 | writer: "Adagietto, Sehr Langsam" from Mahler's Symphony No. 5 | |
Timecode | 2000 | writer: "Symphony No. 5 - Adagietto" | |
Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes | 2000 | "Symphonie N°4 en sol majeur" | |
Hamlet | 2000 | writer: "Symphony #1, Titan-Langsam Schleppend" | |
Paragraph 175 | 2000 | Documentary writer: "Symphony No. 5" | |
My Neighbors the Yamadas | 1999 | music: "Symphony No. 1 in D Major Titan - 4th Movement", "Symphony No. 5 in C Sharp Minor, 1st Movement" | |
Österreich - Unser Jahrhundert | 1999 | TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode | |
Star Trek: Voyager | 1998 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
Beware of My Love | 1998 | writer: "Symphonie n°5 adagietto" | |
La vida en el aire | 1998 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
Stiff Upper Lips | 1998 | "Adagietto" | |
Sitcom | 1998 | music: "Symphoniie no 1 Feirlich II", "Symphonie no. 3 Langsam", "Symphonie no. 4 Ruhevoll I" - as G. Mahler | |
Velvet Goldmine | 1998 | writer: "Symphony No. 6 in A Minor" | |
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train | 1998 | writer: "Adagio de la Symphonie n.10" | |
The Well | 1997 | writer: "Liebst Du Um Schönheit Rückert Leider", "Symphony No 2. In C Minor 4th Movement - Urlicht" | |
Telo bez duse | 1996 | Documentary writer: "Symphony 5 - Adagietto" | |
Hana yori dango | 1996 | TV Series writer: "Symphony No.5, Part III: IV. Adagietto" | |
Lust och fägring stor | 1995 | music: "Symphony No. 5" Adagietto, "Kindertotenlieder" - as Mahler | |
The Ren & Stimpy Show | 1994 | TV Series music - 1 episode | |
Felidae | 1994 | "Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'" | |
Grange Hill | 1994 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
Tikhiye stranitsy | 1994 | writer: "Kindertotenlieder" | |
Cheers | 1993 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
Husbands and Wives | 1992 | writer: "Symphony No. 9 in D 'Andante Comodo'" 1909-10 | |
Lektionen in Finsternis | 1992 | Documentary writer: "Symphony No. 2" | |
Rubin and Ed | 1991 | writer: "Symphony #1 in D Minor" | |
Scorchers | 1991 | writer: "Symphony No. 5 - Adagietto" | |
Sunday Pursuit | 1990 | Short music: "Symphony No.5 in C Sharp Minor" - uncredited | |
Death in Brunswick | 1990 | writer: "Symphony No. 5: Adagietto" - as Mahler | |
Alligator Eyes | 1990 | writer: "GUSTAV MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 2 IN C MINOR" | |
Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator | 1989 | "Symphony Number 1" | |
Another Woman | 1988 | writer: "Symphony No.4 in G Major" 1901 | |
The Music Teacher | 1988 | writer: "Symphonie No 4, 1. Ruhevoll", "Von der Jugend", "Um mitternacht" from "Ruckert-Lieder: No. 5 | |
Latvoilta jokisuulle | 1988 | Documentary writer: "Sinfonie Nr. 4 G-Dur", "Sinfonie Nr. 5 cis-Moll", "Sinfonie Nr. 1 D-Dur", "Sinfonie Nr. 3 d-Moll" | |
Permanent Record | 1988 | writer: "Symphony No. 5, Adagietto" | |
Bright Lights, Big City | 1988 | writer: "Nun Will Die Sonn' So Hell Aufgehn" from "Kindertotenlieder" | |
Isoäidin kuolema | 1986 | TV Movie writer: "Der Abschied" | |
Year of the Dragon | 1985 | writer: "Resurrection Symphony #2 Fifth Movement" | |
El Norte | 1983 | "Symphony #4" | |
M*A*S*H | 1983 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
Toute une nuit | 1982 | writer: "Kindertotenlieder" | |
Cosmos | 1980 | TV Mini-Series documentary writer - 1 episode | |
Mystique | 1979 | writer: "Songs on the Death of Children" - uncredited | |
In a Year with 13 Moons | 1978 | writer: "Symphony No. 5 - 4. Adagietto" | |
Zwischen zwei Kriegen | 1978 | writer: "Lied von der Erde" | |
Oi tembelides tis eforis koiladas | 1978 | writer: "Symphony No. 1" | |
Libertad provisional | 1976 | writer: "Symphony No. 1" | |
Mr. Klein | 1976 | writer: "Kindertotenlieder - Nun Will Die Sonn' So Hell Aufgehn" | |
The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard | 1976 | TV Mini-Series music - 1 episode | |
The Marriage | 1976 | writer: "9th Symphony" | |
Lotte in Weimar | 1975 | "1st Movement from Symphony No.6 in a minor" | |
Dixon of Dock Green | 1975 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
Karl May | 1974 | writer: "Symphony No. 4 in G major", "Symphony No. 2 in C minor" | |
The Gambler | 1974 | as Mahler, "Symphony No. 1 in D" | |
Mahler | 1974 | writer: "The Mahler Symphonies" | |
Fall of Eagles | 1974 | TV Mini-Series "Trauermarsch", uncredited | |
The Public Eye | 1972 | music: "Symphony No. 5 in C Sharp Minor" - uncredited | |
Death in Venice | 1971 | writer: "Adagietto From Symphony No.5", "Sehr Langsam Misterioso From Symphony No.3" | |
Four Ways to Say Farewell | 1971 | TV Movie music: "Symphony No. 9" excerpts | |
Alla ricerca di Tadzio | 1970 | TV Short documentary writer: "Symphony No. 4, 1st Movement" | |
The Honeymoon Killers | 1970 | writer: "Symphonies Nos. 5, 6 & 9" | |
Woman in Chains | 1968 | music: "Extraits de la 4ème Symphonie Symphony No. 4" | |
Journey to Jerusalem | 1968 | Documentary "Symphony No. 2 in C Minor Resurrection" | |
John F. Kennedy Memorial Concert | 1963 | TV Movie "Symphony No. 2" Resurrection | |
Voyage of Time: Life's Journey | 2016 | Documentary writer: "Symphony No. 2 in C Minor "Resurrection"" | |
In Search of Perfect Consonance | 2016 | Documentary writer: "Symphony No. 4" | |
Mozart in the Jungle | 2014-2015 | TV Series writer - 2 episodes | |
Fargo | 2015 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
Boardwalk Empire | 2010-2014 | TV Series writer - 2 episodes | |
Boys Like Us | 2014 | writer: "Symphonie N°5" | |
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | 2014 | writer: "Symphony No. 9 in D", "Ich bin der Welt Abhanden Gekommen [Rückert-Lieder]" | |
Hannibal | 2014 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
5 to 7 | 2014 | writer: "Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor, I.Trauermarsch" | |
The Trip to Italy | 2014 | writer: "Mahler: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen [Rückert-Lieder]" | |
Ice Soldiers | 2013 | "Symphony #2 in C minor, 'Resurrection' IV: sehr feierlich, aber schlicht" | |
Inside Llewyn Davis | 2013 | writer: "Symphony No. 4 in G: IV. Sehr Behaglich - Wir Geniessen die Himmlischen Freuden" | |
Gloria | 2013/II | writer: "Adiagietto de la 5ª Sinfonia" | |
Treppenwitz | 2012 | Short music: "Symphony No. 1 in D major 'Titan'" | |
Orchestra of Exiles | 2012 | Documentary writer: "Symphony No. 2 in C Minor: 'Resurrection'" | |
The Artist and the Model | 2012 | writer: "Novena Sinfonía" | |
Kibô no kuni | 2012 | writer: "Adagio" movement from the unfinished 10th" | |
Perception | 2012 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
Laurence Anyways | 2012 | music: "Symphony No. 1 in D major 'Titan'" | |
Colburn Concert Series | 2012 | TV Series documentary music - 1 episode | |
Yossi | 2012 | writer: "Mahler Symphony Nr 5 in C sharp minor - IV Adagietto" | |
Ultrasonic Nativity | 2012 | Short music: "Symphony No. 2, Ressurection: Primeval Light", "Excerpt from Symphony No. 4" | |
Great Performances | TV Series 1 episode, 2009 music - 1 episode, 2011 | ||
Banda sonora | 2008-2011 | TV Series writer - 2 episodes | |
Koi no tsumi | 2011 | writer: "Symphony No 5 in C Sharp minior - IV. Adagietto" | |
The Tree of Life | 2011 | writer: "Symphony No. 1" | |
The Simpsons | 2011 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
Tsumetai nettaigyo | 2010 | writer: "Symphony No. 1 In D Major" | |
Mahler on the Couch | 2010 | writer: "Symphony 10 - First Movement", "Symphony 4 - Third Movement", "Symphony 5 - Fourth Movement" | |
Shutter Island | 2010 | writer: "QUARTET FOR PIANO AND STRINGS IN A MINOR" 1876 | |
The Killer Inside Me | 2010 | writer: "Symphony No. 2 in C Minor 'Resurrection'", "Ich Bin der Welt Abhanden Gekommen Rückert-Lieder" | |
Snow White | 2009 | TV Movie "Mahler: Symphony No.9 In D major: II. Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers", "Symphony No. 9 in D: IV. Adagio Sehr langsam und noch zurückhaltend", "Andante", "Allegro maestoso. Mit durchaus ernstem und feierlichem Ausdruck", "Im tempo des scherzo", "Andante moderato. Sehr gemächlich", "Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen", "Sehr langsam: O Mensch! Gib acht! - Partie II", "Scherzo Kräftig, nicht zu schnell" | |
Misfits | 2009 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
Dennis Nilsen: Gr | 2009 | TV Movie documentary writer: "Symphony No. 5 in C Sharp Minor: IV Adagietto" - as Mahler | |
Le citt | 2009 | Documentary short "Sinfonia No. 5 - Adagietto" | |
Io sono l'amore | 2009 | writer: "Symphony No. 4 in G Major, 4th Movement Sehr behaglich" | |
Good | 2008 | writer: "Decorator's Song - Ging Heut Morgens über's feld" from Songs of a Wayfarer, "Caretakers' Song - Rheinlegendchen" from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, "Film Crew's Song - Die Zwei Blauen Augen" from Songs of a Wayfarer, "Party VIPs' Song - Revelge" from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, "The Jews' Song - Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, 4th movement", "Concentration Camp Band - Symphony No. 1 in D Major, 3rd movement" | |
Come diventai Alida Valli | 2008 | Documentary "Adagietto From Symphony No.5" | |
Of Time and the City | 2008 | Documentary writer: "Symphony No.2 in C minor - Resurrection" | |
Le genou d'Artémide | 2008 | Short writer: "Das Lied von der Erde" | |
Flame and Citron | 2008 | writer: "From Symphony No. 3 in D Minor" | |
Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music | 2007 | TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode | |
Sleeping Betty | 2007 | Short music: "Symphony No. 1" | |
In memoria di me | 2007 | writer: "Symphony No. 5 - IV. Adagetto" | |
How Music Works | 2006 | TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode | |
Ficció | 2006 | writer: "Symphony NR 3 in D Minor", "Symphony NR 5 in C Sharp Minor Adagietto" | |
One Symphony Place: A World Premiere Live from Music City | 2006 | TV Movie writer: "Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Resurrection" "Movement IV: Urlicht", "Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Resurrection" "Movement V: Scherzo" | |
Children of Men | 2006 | music: "Kindertotenlieder: Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n" | |
Vilniaus getas | 2006 | writer: "Adagietto from The 5th Symphony" fragments | |
Suite Dreams | 2006 | writer: "3rd Movement from Symphony No.2 'Resurrection'" | |
Kamyu nante shiranai | 2005 | writer: "Adagietto" | |
Mana: Beyond Belief | 2004 | Documentary "Symphony No. 7" | |
Letters of Service | 2004 | Short writer: "Symphony No. 1 in D Major" | |
Drakengard | 2003 | Video Game writer: "Symphony No.5" | |
Coffee and Cigarettes | 2003 | writer: "Ich Bin der Welt Abhanden Gekommen I Have Lost Track of the World" | |
Bumer | 2003 | writer: "Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor" | |
Last Dance | 2002 | Documentary writer: "Songs to Poems from Des Knaben Wunderhorn" |
Composer
Composer
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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All-Star Orchestra | 2013 | TV Series 1 episode | |
Keeping Score | 2011 | TV Series documentary 1 episode | |
Májusi zápor | 2009 | TV Movie as Mahler | |
Au milieu de l'orchestre | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | |
Love Song | 2008 | Short | |
Habana - Arte nuevo de hacer ruinas | 2006 | Documentary | |
Urlicht | 2006 | Short | |
Gustav Mahler - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen | 2005 | Video | |
L'armadio | 2004 | Short | |
Elegiya dorogi | 2001 | Documentary | |
Pieta | 1998 | Short | |
Kázání rybám | 1998 | TV Mini-Series international version | |
Great Composers | 1997 | TV Series documentary 1 episode | |
Ceremoniár | 1996 | ||
The Windows | 1996 | Short | |
Ça se passe en Équateur | 1994 | Short | |
Kamen | 1992 | ||
Adolf Dietrich, Kunstmaler 1877 - 1957 | 1991 | Documentary | |
À force de partir, je suis resté chez moi | 1990 | TV Short | |
Mezi svetlem a tmou | 1990 | Documentary short | |
Czlowiek srodka | 1988 | Video documentary short | |
The Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler | 1985 | Video documentary | |
Variace na téma Gustava Mahlera | 1980 | Documentary short | |
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9 | 1972 | TV Movie | |
Death in Venice | 1971 |
Music Department
Music Department
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Another Wannabe Model | 2015 | Short music by | |
A Flower | 2015/I | Short music | |
Modus Operandi | 2014 | Short composer: additional music | |
Om de wereld in 50 concerten | 2014 | Documentary featured music | |
La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura | 2014 | Short | |
Povratak posljednjeg | 2014 | Documentary stock music | |
Ataraxia | 2013/II | Short composer: theme music: Sinfonía No. 2 | |
Hölderlin-Fragmente | 2009 | Short composer: stock music | |
József és testvérei - Jelenetek a parasztbibliából | 2004 | composer: stock music | |
Merci pour le Chocolat | 2000 | composer: additional music - as Mahler | |
Povinnost | 1998 | TV Mini-Series documentary composer: song "Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen" from "Kindertotenlieder" | |
Denk ich an Deutschland - Das Wispern im Berg der Dinge | 1997 | TV Movie documentary non original music | |
Dukhovnye golosa. Iz dnevnikov voyny. Povestvovanie v pyati chastyakh | 1995 | Documentary composer: song "Wenn dein Mütterlein tritt zur Tür herein" from "Kindertotenlieder" | |
Freek de Jonge: De goeroe & de dissident | 1990 | TV Special documentary stock music | |
Võõra nime all | 1986 | TV Movie composer: additional music | |
The Book of Mary | 1986 | Short composer: stock music - as Mahler | |
Inferno (Pakao) | 1985 | Documentary short composer: stock music | |
Bernstein on Mahler | 1985 | TV Movie documentary composer: selected works | |
Gustav Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 8 | 1975 | TV Movie documentary music by |
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1 | The Symphony is like the world. It must contain everything. |
2 | I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed. |
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