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Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler nacque nel 1860 a Kalischt, nella regione austriaca di Boemia, da Bernhard e Marie Hermann. La sua famiglia era di origine ebraica-ashkenazita e di lingua tedesca. A pochi mesi dalla nascita, si trasferì ad Iglau. La sua infanzia fu molto triste, costellata dalla morte di diversi dei suoi fratelli. Aiutato dal padre, che in giovinezza strimpellava il violino (e dal pianista Julius Epstein), nel 1875 riuscì a entrare al conservatorio di Vienna, che frequentò tre anni, ottenendo consensi e suscitando gelosie, probabilmente a causa del suo brutto carattere. In questo clima strinse una buona amicizia con Hugo Wolf, Hans Rott, i fratelli Rosè, il violinista Krizianovskij. Il sodalizio intellettuale e artistico con il compositore Anton Bruckner si rivelò "utile" anche in campo lavorativo.
Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was a late-Romantic composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. A Jew, he was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then the Austrian Empire, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic. His family later moved to nearby Iglau (now Jihlava), where Mahler grew up.
As a composer, Mahler acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 the music was discovered and championed by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became a frequently performed and recorded composer, a position he has sustained into the 21st century.
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler nacque nel 1860 a Kalischt, nella regione austriaca di Boemia, da Bernhard e Marie Hermann. La sua famiglia era di origine ebraica-ashkenazita e di lingua tedesca. A pochi mesi dalla nascita, si trasferì ad Iglau. La sua infanzia fu molto triste, costellata dalla morte di diversi dei suoi fratelli. Aiutato dal padre, che in giovinezza strimpellava il violino (e dal pianista Julius Epstein), nel 1875 riuscì a entrare al conservatorio di Vienna, che frequentò tre anni, ottenendo consensi e suscitando gelosie, probabilmente a causa del suo brutto carattere. In questo clima strinse una buona amicizia con Hugo Wolf, Hans Rott, i fratelli Rosè, il violinista Krizianovskij. Il sodalizio intellettuale e artistico con il compositore Anton Bruckner si rivelò "utile" anche in campo lavorativo.
Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was a late-Romantic composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. A Jew, he was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then the Austrian Empire, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic. His family later moved to nearby Iglau (now Jihlava), where Mahler grew up.
As a composer, Mahler acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 the music was discovered and championed by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became a frequently performed and recorded composer, a position he has sustained into the 21st century.