When did Gustav Mahler write Des Knaben Wunderhorn?
When did Gustav Mahler write Des Knaben Wunderhorn?
The songs of Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn) by Gustav Mahler are voice-and-piano and orchestral settings of German folk poems chosen from a collection of the same name assembled by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano and published by them, in heavily redacted form, between 1805 and 1808.
Are there any early symphonies by Gustav Mahler?
Mahler historian Donald Mitchell writes: “Though one may perhaps be a shade sceptical about the existence of four symphonies, each of them completely carried through, the strong possibility remains that some important manuscripts, either early symphonies or parts of early symphonies, were to be found in Dresden.”
When did Mahler write Das himmlische Leben?
An additional setting from this period was “Das himmlische Leben” (‘The Heavenly Life’), of February 1892 (orch. March 1892).