Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahlerwas an Austrian late-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...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth7 July 1860
CountryAustria
You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.
I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.
We all return. It is this certainty that gives meaning to life and it does not make the slightest difference whether or not in a later incarnation we remember the former life. What counts is not the individual and his comfort, but the great aspiration to the perfect and the pure which goes on in each incarnation.
Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.
With the coming of spring, I am calm again.
Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed
To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.
Discipline, work. Work, discipline.
A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!