Vienna at the Turn of

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Chapter 60

• Vienna at the Turn of
• the Twentieth Century
• Gustav and Alma Mahler

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Lecture Overview

• Vienna at the turn of the 20th century
• Gustav Mahler
• life and music
• song Um Mitternacht
• Symphony No. 5, movement 4 (Adagietto)
• Alma Mahler
• life and music
• song Die stille Stadt
• Review

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The Life of Gustav Mahler (18601911)

• 1860 born in Kalist, a Bohemian village
  northwest of Vienna
• 1875 attends Conservatory in Vienna
• 1880 begins career of conductor
• 1897 appointed music director of the Vienna
  Opera
• 1902 marries Alma Schindler
• 1907 leaves the Vienna Opera for the
  Metropolitan Opera in New York
• 1911 dies in Vienna

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Principal Compositions of Gustav Mahler

• Orchestra symphonies (10), song-symphony Das
  Lied von der Erde
• Songs about 45 including cycles
• Songs of a Wayfarer
• Kindertotenlieder

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Gustav Mahler, Um Mitternacht, 1901
Through-composed form
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Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 5, 1902, movement 4
(Adagietto)
Ternary form
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The Life of Alma Mahler (18791964)

• 1879 born in Vienna to the family of a painter
• 1900 lessons in music with Alexander Zemlinsky
• 1902 marries Gustav Mahler and gives up
  composing
• 1910 returns to music and publishes a collection
  of early songs
• 1929 after a brief marriage to Walter Gropius,
  marries the writer Franz Werfel
• 1940 arrives in California for duration of World
  War II
• 1945 moves to New York
• 1964 dies in New York

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Principal Compositions by Alma Mahler

• Songs sixteen, composed c19001924

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Alma Mahler, song Die stille Stadt, c1901
Through-composed form
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Review Key Terms

• Des knaben Wunderhorn
• oboe damore
• Alexander Zemlinsky