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'''Gustav Mahler''' (July 7, 1860, Kaliště, Bohemia – May 18, 1911, Vienna, Austria) was a Austrian-Jewish composer and conductor.
'''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.
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 some of his ten numbered symphonies feature singers.

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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 some of his ten numbered symphonies feature singers.