#das lied von der erde

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Gustav Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde (IV. Der Abschied). Versión de Arnold Schönberg y Rainer Riehn. Philippe Herreweghe, director Birgit Remmert, mezzosoprano

A propósito del aniversario de nacimiento de Gustav Mahler, quien nació el 7 de julio de 1860 en Bohemia.

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Happy Earth Day 2023!

For Satanists, our carnal religion celebrates every day as Earth Day. We cherish and protect our wondrous home world, with all of its beauties and terrors, and invite you to do the same. If possible, go out of doors and partake of the splendors of Nature—of which you are a vibrant participant! Gustav Mahler‘s “Song of the Earth” created a new form of song-cycle symphony, which has inspired a…

[hayleylovesjessica]

Also, Laura, you have to hear Das Lied von der Erde. It's a symphony in all but name, and even Mahler himself viewed it as his real ninth symphony since it was composed between the symphonies numbered No. 8 and No. 9. I know it heard it once back in college with Kurt Masur, the NYPO, Jennifer Larmore, and Richard Leech. There might be another performance of it that I can't remember. In any case, it should definitely be included as part of your live Mahler goal.

"my goal is currently to listen to every single one of his symphonies live" -- That was my goal, too! I achieved it a few years ago. I think the last one I heard live was No. 7, which is in some ways the most unusual of Mahler's symphonies and, thus, the least programmed and performed. Due to the size of the forces necessary, No. 8 is also infrequently performed. I'm lucky I got to hear it with Sir Simon Rattle and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain 20 years ago. It was shattering.

Oh I love that for you!!!!

[symphonybracket]

In honor of the last Mahler symphony in this bracket dying right now...

[shirakabayuki]

btw my 2 classical music followers i kinda wanna do an artsong bracket... just know that idea's taken

[supercantaloupe]

hiii do you have a fav orchestral oboe solo? I love the one in mahler 2 mvmt 4 :)

this is lexi btw for some reason my asks only go through on anon so I'm going to tag myself @recapitulation

ohh that's such a tough question...i don't think i could choose just one. but tchaik 1 mvt 2 is Speaking to me right now though. those slow lyrical ones from the late romantic era i think are some of the hardest but most rewarding ones to play well, and some of the absolute sweetest to listen to

[ozzyeelz]

Commission dump!! Thank you guys so much for all the support lately, it’s so fun to work on these for you guys, and getting to see your cool characters too!!!

Top left: @arseniccake ‘s dnd npc

Top right: @xalsona ‘s dnd character Zanfyr

Middle: @die-06 ‘s Tf2 ocs Navy and Eod

Last (but not least): a Medic profile picture for @das-lied-von-der-erde (feat. his doves!)

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Gustav Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde. Leonard Bernstein, director Christa Ludwig, mezzosoprano René Kollo, tenor

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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Hilley ∙ Hasselho...

[recapitulation]

i would go to the club if they played this at the club

[blackswaneuroparedux]

What one makes music from is still the whole - that is the feeling, thinking, breathing, suffering, human being.

Gustav Mahler

On 26 June 1912, Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony was given its posthumous premiere in Vienna with Bruno Walter leading the Philharmonic. This profoundly valedictory work - the last Mahler completed before he died - is considered by many Mahler devotees to be his greatest achievement.

Back in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, a superstition developed in the classical music world that prophesied the Ninth would be a composer’s last symphony. Arnold Schoenberg summed it up in an eloquent fashion, stating that “he who wants to go beyond it must pass away. It seems as if something might be imparted to us in the Tenth which we ought not yet to know, for which we are not ready. Those who have written a Ninth stood too close to the hereafter.”

To support this, history gives us Beethoven, Schubert, Dvorák, Bruckner, Mahler, and Vaughan Williams, who either died after completing the ninth (Dvorák waited ten years) or never made it through a tenth. We’ll overlook Shostakovich, who not only completed a ninth but went on to write and publish six more. He was Shostakovich, after all. Even death kept a wary, respectful distance.

Mahler, some say was superstitious about the matter, tried to sneak around it by calling his ninth symphonic-length work, “Das Lied von der Erde,” a song-cycle rather than a symphony. He bravely undertook his Ninth, rife with its intimations of death and the ache of the human condition, and published it (although he never heard it performed). A year later he began working on his Tenth, but, true to the curse, he died before finishing it. Although he’d sketched out the whole symphony, only the first movement, “Adagio,” and a brief third movement, “Purgatorio,” are complete.

I’m not sure I buy it that this was Mahler’s song song as he saw it. I think that’s just a convenient mythos that enveloped around the traumatic death of one of finest composers ever. Far from going gently into a sort of pre-deathly contemplation, Mahler was full of plans, action, and music in the years when he was writing the Ninth Symphony. He was taking up his post at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, writing Das Lied von der Erde, preparing for the premiere of the Eighth Symphony, and writing, but not completing, what would truly be his last symphony, the Tenth. That’s another danger of thinking about that last page of the Ninth Symphony as the end of Mahler’s compositional life. It’s not: for Mahler, and maybe for us, it should be an insight into life - albeit a life transformed after the intensity of what you’ll have been through after listening to any complete performance of his symphony - rather than a leaving of it.

Daniel Barenboim conducts Mahler's 9th Symphony with the Stasoper Berlin orchestra.

[sivavakkiyar]

I am Li Bai! That idiot drowned drunk in a lake stepping out of his boat trying to hug the moon. Actually, Mahler set that to music in Das Lied von der Erde

[k1tmn]

Der Herbstregen fällt wie flüsternde Tränen vom Himmel, sanft und unaufhörlich. Jeder Tropfen erzählt von Abschied und Vergänglichkeit, als ob die Natur selbst innehalten würde, um sich von den warmen Tagen zu verabschieden. Die Welt wird in einen melancholischen Schleier gehüllt, der alles in ein ruhiges, gedämpftes Licht taucht. Die Blätter, in Gold und Purpur gefärbt, tanzen im Wind, bevor sie sich seufzend auf die Erde legen, als würden sie dem Ruf des Regens folgen, heimzukehren.

Der Duft von nasser Erde steigt auf, vermischt mit dem rauchigen Aroma von brennendem Holz. Die Luft ist frisch und kühl, sie kitzelt die Sinne und weckt ein leises Sehnen im Herzen. Es ist die Zeit des Rückzugs, des Nachdenkens. Die Regentropfen an den Fensterscheiben zeichnen stille Muster, und in jedem Rinnsal scheint ein flüchtiger Gedanke verborgen, ein Gefühl, das nur in dieser Jahreszeit erwacht.

Es ist die Zeit, in der die Seele zur Ruhe kommt, in der man sich nach innen wendet, um den eigenen Regen zu spüren, die verborgenen Tränen, die sanft und leise in uns fließen. Der Herbstregen erinnert daran, dass alles seine Zeit hat – das Werden und Vergehen, die Freude und die Trauer. Er singt ein Lied von Veränderung, von Loslassen und Neubeginn. Und während die Regentropfen die Erde umarmen, umarmt der Herbst unser Herz, und wir werden still, lauschen dem Lied der fallenden Blätter und dem zarten Wispern des Regens, das uns daran erinnert, dass auch in der Melancholie eine leise, tröstende Schönheit liegt.