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Portrait of Gustav Mahler by Paul Helm
Gustav Mahler (1909)
Music
Life
Mahler was born in Kalischt, Bohemia, on July 7, 1860. At the time, Bohemia (later to form a major component of Czechoslovakia, and later the Czech Republic) was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, then enduring its final crumbling decades, and the region where Mahler spent his youth was strongly associate with the Czech independence movement. However, Mahler also was a Jew, and Jews in the region were associated by ethnic Czechs with Germans. Mahler’s famous quote is: "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."
(Contributed by Jan Vávra <janvavra
hotmail.com>)
[in Dutch]
Gustav Mahler was de zoon van een Joodse koopman. Hij studeerde vanaf zijn 15e aan het Weens Conservatorium. Mahler was operadirigent aan vele theaters, zoals Budapest, Hamburg en Wenen, waar hij de Wiener Hofoper tot de voornaamste in Europa maakte. Vanwege hartproblemen en de dood van zijn oudste dochter verliet hij Wenen, waar hij ook radicale jonge componisten als Schönberg, Berg, Webern en Zemlinsky had gesteund door zijn activiteiten voor de Vereinigung schaffender Tonkünstler. Intussen was zijn liedoeuvre uitgebreid met vier van de vijf Rückert-Lieder, de Kindertotenlieder (1901-1904). Tijdens zijn leven genoten zijn werken niet veel waardering; pas in de jaren ‘50 werd zijn werk populair.
(conntribution by Robbert Muuse <robbertmuusehotmail.com>)
Places
![Budapest <br/><p class="copy">Uploaded by <a href="/user/10">Ed Tervooren</a> [© Copyright may apply] — Classical Composers Database</p>](/uploads/place/44/10/hu.1.74b.jpg "click for larger image")
![Budapest <br/><p class="copy">Uploaded by <a href="/user/10">Ed Tervooren</a> [© Copyright may apply] — Classical Composers Database</p>](/uploads/place/44/10/hu.1.74a.jpg "click for larger image")
![Gürzenich Köln Gürzenich<br/><p class="copy">Uploaded by <a href="/user/10">Ed Tervooren</a> [© Copyright may apply] — Classical Composers Database</p>](/uploads/place/2029/10/d01.6.08.jpg "click for larger image")
Gürzenich
![Magyar Állami Operaház Budapest <br/><p class="copy">Uploaded by <a href="/user/10">Ed Tervooren</a> [© Copyright may apply] — Classical Composers Database</p>](/uploads/place/46/10/hu.1.76b.jpg "click for larger image")
![Magyar Állami Operaház Budapest <br/><p class="copy">Uploaded by <a href="/user/10">Ed Tervooren</a> [© Copyright may apply] — Classical Composers Database</p>](/uploads/place/46/10/hu.1.76a.jpg "click for larger image")
![Jihlava <br/><p class="copy">Uploaded by <a href="/user/10">Ed Tervooren</a> [© Copyright may apply] — Classical Composers Database</p>](/uploads/place/1266/10/cz8.76.jpg "click for larger image")
![Jihlava <br/><p class="copy">Uploaded by <a href="/user/10">Ed Tervooren</a> [© Copyright may apply] — Classical Composers Database</p>](/uploads/place/1266/10/cz8.76_2.jpg "click for larger image")
![Jihlava Mahler Museum Jihlava<br/><p class="copy">Uploaded by <a href="/user/10">Ed Tervooren</a> [© Copyright may apply] — Classical Composers Database</p>](/uploads/place/1266/10/cz8.76x.JPG "click for larger image")
![Kaliště <br/><p class="copy">Uploaded by <a href="/user/10">Ed Tervooren</a> [© Copyright may apply] — Classical Composers Database</p>](/uploads/place/1184/10/cz7.65.jpg "click for larger image")
![Kaliště Roses for Mahler<br/><p class="copy">Uploaded by <a href="/user/10">Ed Tervooren</a> [© Copyright may apply] — Classical Composers Database</p>](/uploads/place/1184/10/cz7.65x.JPG "click for larger image")
![“U zlaté štiky” Olomouc <br/><p class="copy">Uploaded by <a href="/user/10">Ed Tervooren</a> [© Copyright may apply] — Classical Composers Database</p>](/uploads/place/1235/10/cz8.50.2.jpg "click for larger image")
![Schloß Schönau Bad Säckingen Trompeter von Säckingen monument<br/><p class="copy">Uploaded by <a href="/user/10">Ed Tervooren</a> [© Copyright may apply] — Classical Composers Database</p>](/uploads/place/2289/10/d04.43.jpg "click for larger image")
Trompeter von Säckingen monument
![Stavovské divadlo Praha - Staré Město <br/><p class="copy">Uploaded by <a href="/user/10">Ed Tervooren</a> [© Copyright may apply] — Classical Composers Database</p>](/uploads/place/1853/10/cz2.11.jpg "click for larger image")
![Stavovské divadlo Praha - Staré Město <br/><p class="copy">Uploaded by <a href="/user/10">Ed Tervooren</a> [© Copyright may apply] — Classical Composers Database</p>](/uploads/place/1853/10/cz2.11_2.jpg "click for larger image")
![U Stříbrné růže Praha - Staré Město U Stříbrné růže<br/><p class="copy">Uploaded by <a href="/user/10">Ed Tervooren</a> [© Copyright may apply] — Classical Composers Database</p>](/uploads/place/1854/10/cz2.12.jpg "click for larger image")
U Stříbrné růže
- Germany, Leipzig, Gustav-Adolf-Straße 12 — Jan 1887
![Leipzig Mahler house<br/><p class="copy">Uploaded by <a href="/user/10">Ed Tervooren</a> [© Copyright may apply] — Classical Composers Database</p>](/uploads/place/2885/10/d08.8.43.jpg "click for larger image")
Mahler house
- Germany, Essen, — — 1906
![Trenkerhof Dobbiaco /Toblach <br/><p class="copy">Uploaded by <a href="/user/10">Ed Tervooren</a> [© Copyright may apply] — Classical Composers Database</p>](/uploads/place/562/10/it.2.59b.jpg "click for larger image")
![Trenkerhof Dobbiaco /Toblach <br/><p class="copy">Uploaded by <a href="/user/10">Ed Tervooren</a> [© Copyright may apply] — Classical Composers Database</p>](/uploads/place/562/10/it.2.59a.jpg "click for larger image")
![Průmyslový palác Praha 7 - Holešovice Průmyslový palác, outside<br/><p class="copy">Uploaded by <a href="/user/10">Ed Tervooren</a> [© Copyright may apply] — Classical Composers Database</p>](/uploads/place/1842/10/cz1.74.jpg "click for larger image")
Průmyslový palác, outside
![Průmyslový palác Praha 7 - Holešovice Průmyslový palác, interior<br/><p class="copy">Uploaded by <a href="/user/10">Ed Tervooren</a> [© Copyright may apply] — Classical Composers Database</p>](/uploads/place/1842/10/cz1.74a.JPG "click for larger image")
Průmyslový palác, interior
![former Cukrovár, Vila Redlich Hodonín <br/><p class="copy">Uploaded by <a href="/user/10">Ed Tervooren</a> [© Copyright may apply] — Classical Composers Database</p>](/uploads/place/1259/10/cz8.68.jpg "click for larger image")