Gustav Mahler died in 1911 of bacterial endocarditis, an inflammation of the valves of an already weakened heart. But perhaps his heart was also broken in the more poetic sense. A year before, the ...

ProMusica Chamber Orchestra will open 2026 at the Southern Theatre with a program that features soprano Camilla Tilling, for ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Now we know why Gustav Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony No. 2 is the Cleveland Orchestra’s season opener. Hint: It isn’t just because music director Franz Welser-Most admires the ...

Mahler plays Mahler: The Welte-Mignon Piano Rolls (Yvonne Kenny, soprano; Claudine Carlson, mezzo-soprano; Golden Legacy/Pickwick). The four piano rolls Gustav Mahler “recorded” for the Welte-Mignon ...

Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), the “composer of the fin de siècle,” believed that “a symphony must be like a world that ...

AMSTERDAM — When Klaus Mäkelä climbed the Concertgebouw podium and turned to the audience at the orchestra’s third Gustav Mahler Festival in 105 years, the conductor could see the writing on the wall.

In 1910, when Viennese composer Gustav Mahler took leave from his rehearsals in Munich to visit Sigmund Freud in Leyden, Holland, he certainly had a lot to talk about. Mahler had grown up in an ...

The CSO is the only American orchestra in an Amsterdam event that is like the Coachella of the classical world. What is the fuss all about? The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is one of the world’s great ...

Gustav Mahler, in his younger days, was a vegetarian. There's a story, recounted by one of his biographers, about how the composer was teased by fellow musicians in a restaurant when he refused meat, ...

Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! It was 156 years ago today that the world was blessed with Gustav Mahler, the ...