Previous posts for July 7th are here: Gustav Mahler (2019), Doc Severinsen (2020), Gian Carlo Menotti (2021), Gustav Mahler (2022), and Gustav Mahler (2023)
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Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was one of European music's greatest composers and conductors.
Perhaps a Piece of Mahler’s: Some Symphones
The Second
When Mahler held up for inspection,
A symphony new to his collection,
He averred, “For more aural
Excitement, it’s choral,
And it goes by the name “Resurrection.”
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The Fifth: Adagietto
As his gondola plies the lagoon.
There’s an achingly beautiful tune;
And we share the despair
Felt by Aschenbach there,
In a mournful Mahlerian swoon.
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The Eighth
Though the skeptics have thought him insane, he
Embarked on the Eighth with a “Veni.”
Still others have groused
That the excerpts from Faust
Are odd and excessively brainy.
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In General
When Mahler sat down to compose,
He worked himself up into throes
Of musical passion,
‘Til haggard and ashen,
He needed a beer with the bros.
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