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Gustav Mahler numbered the collection among his favourite books and set its poems to music throughout much of his life. The text of the first of his four Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen , begun in , is based directly on the Wunderhorn poem "Wann [sic] mein Schatz," pulling from the first two stanzas.

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Between and , he wrote two dozen settings of Wunderhorn texts, several of which were incorporated into or composed as movements for his Second, Third and Fourth symphonies. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Des Knaben Wunderhorn Mahler. Retrieved from " https: Views Read Edit View history.

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Also omitted in our sequence is? Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?? While Mahler's earlier Wunderhorn songs, for voice and piano, were eventually orchestrated by other musicians, with Mahler's approval , it is inescapably apparent that those we hear this week were conceived in orchestral terms from the outset. What we hear is not merely? Das Lied von der Erde.

As for the voice itself: My songs are all conceived for male voices,? Apparently Mahler never established a? His distinguished biographer Henry-Louis de La Grange, in fact, notes that when the aforementioned Johannes Messchaert put this question to him, Mahler him? The following order is observed in the present concerts: The Sentinel's Night Song?

Mahler adapted this song from sketches he made in or about for an opera he began in collaboration with Karl von Weber. He had worked with Weber on the completion of the latter's famous grandfather's unfinished opera Die drei Pintos, but their new project was abandoned, possibly because of the disturbing effects of the young composer's infatuation with his beneficent collaborator's wife. Mahler affixed a descriptive subtitle to this song: A Scene from Army Life.?

The sentinel thinks of his distant beloved, and laments his helplessness to determine the course of his own life. The text is in from Tyolian folk poetry, with additions by one or both of the collection's original editors.

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Where the Shining Trumpets Sound? A soldier leaving for the wars bids farewell to his beloved, knowing he will not return: This is the most extended of the Wunderhorn songs, a veritable tone poem with voice, as several commentators have observed. An aura of unworldliness, underscored by the mutes strings and brass, suggests the soldier's acceptance of his coming death. Reality sinks in with the removal of the mutes on the horns and trumpets at the end.

Both the title and the character of this dark, tragic song stand in direct contrast to the Wunderhorn song? The scene of a desperate mother's confronting the hunger of her child is frequently compared with Schubert's dramatic? This song is familiar of those sung in the present concerts, by virtue of its position as the fourth movement of Mahler's Second Symphony the? Song of the Prisoner in the Tower?

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In this dialogue of contrasts the utterances of? The Prisoner defiantly reiterates,? Our thoughts are free!? The Maiden, however, such abstraction means little: Were I but dead were I with thee. In this dialogue between a lad and a lass, the former wants none of what the latter so eagerly offers.

The cynicism and irony, applied with a light touch, are part of the song's charm; so is the reduced orchestra, which contrasts with the large one emphasizing dark colors in the first song. Saint Anthony of Padua Preaches to the Fishes? On the wall of his studio in Hamburg, and again in Vienna, Mahler kept an etching depicting Saint Anthony preaching to his finny congregation. The music he created to match it was composed in two forms at the same time: As already noted, Mahler incorporated a completed Wunderhorn, the?

He left us his own commentary on the song, in a remark to Natalie Bauer-Lechner:. A somewhat sweet-and-sour humor prevails in the Fischpredigt.


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    I practically saw them in the music and burst out laughing. Then, the sermon over, the congregants swim away in all directions. In Praise of High Intellect? The text in this case may be traced back to a version earlier than the Wunderhorn collection, originally circulated under the title? Wettstreit des Kuckuks mit der Nachtigall? Contest between the Cuckoo and the Nightingale.? The judge for this competition is a donkey, chosen because of his long ears; predictably, he awards the prize to the cuckoo, whose singing is more?

    Mahler's original title, in case anyone missed the point, was? Mahler cited this song at the beginning of the rumbustious finale of his Fifth Symphony, a movement which ends with a passage supposedly depicting a music critic being kicked down a flight of stairs. La Grange tells us that Mahler considered this? The surpassingly long opening movement of his Third Symphony, Mahler said, was just a? La Grange advises further:. Mahler enjoyed confiding to his friends that, after long wanting to set the poem to music, the right melodic inspiration had only come to him one day in June in Alt-Aussee while he was sitting on the toilet, and that he emerged with the completed sketch for the setting in his hand.

    However the inspiration may have come, this is surely the most striking, and perhaps the most truly? Death, tragic and meaningless, is limned here, and Mahler calls on big orchestral forces.