Mahler

9 symphonies, Das Lied von der Erde

The symphony's last great champion and its most tormented. His symphonies contain everything — marches, folk tunes, bird calls, despair, ecstasy, death — stretched to a scale and an emotional extremity that brought the form to its breaking point.

Key works

• Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'1894— Death and transfiguration
• Das Lied von der Erde1909— Farewell to the earth
• Symphony No. 91909— The most devastating adagio

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