Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler (July 7, 1860, Kaliště, Bohemia – May 18, 1911, Vienna, Austria) was a Austrian-Jewish composer and conductor.

Mahler wrote only symphonies and song cycles, and there is some overlap between the two: for example, his last work Das Lied von der Erde he regarded as a symphony, though one might take it for a song-cycle, while a number of his symphonies feature singers.