Gustav Mahler was an Austro-Bohemian late-Romantic composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation, celebrated in his lifetime primarily for his conducting while his ten symphonies and song cycles gained wider recognition only after his death. Major works include his ten symphonies, the song cycles “Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen” and “Kindertotenlieder,” and the symphonic song cycle “Das Lied von der Erde.” His music forms a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German symphonic tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century.

Mahler’s compositions, suppressed under the Nazi regime, experienced a major revival after 1945 and directly influenced the Second Viennese School (Schoenberg, Berg, Webern) as well as later composers such as Shostakovich, Britten, and Bernstein; he is today among the most frequently performed and recorded of all classical composers.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler