Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) was an Austrian-Bohemian composer best known for his song-cycles and his grand, sweeping symphonies, which often require expanded orchestras for their full performance. Mahler, a composer of Late-Romantic music and conductor at such prestigious institutions as the Vienna State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, died in Vienna, aged just 50.
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1860 - 1911The life of the Bohemian-Austrian composer Gustav Mahler.
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7 Jul 1860Gustav Mahler is born in Kalište in Bohemia.
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1870Gustav Mahler gives his first public piano recital.
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1871 - 1872Gustav Mahler attends a boarding school in Prague.
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1875 - 1878Gustav Mahler studies at the Vienna Conservatory.
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1883Gustav Mahler, now established as a conductor, moves to Kassel in Germany.
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1883Gustav Mahler composes his Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen.
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1885Gustav Mahler lives in Prague for one year.
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1886Gustav Mahler moves to Leipzig and completes the Carl Maria von Weber opera Die drei Pintos.
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1888Gustav Mahler is appointed the conductor at the Royal Opera in Budapest.
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1889The premiere of Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony.
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1891Gustav Mahler conducts Tristan und Isolde in Hamburg.
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1892Gustav Mahler conducts at London's Covent Garden.
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1895The premiere of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony, with Mahler conducting, in Berlin.
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1897Gustav Mahler is appointed the director of the Vienna State Opera.
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1898 - 1901Gustav Mahler is the conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
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1902Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler.
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1907Gustav Mahler's daughter dies of scarlet fever, he resigns from the Vienna State Opera, and he is diagnosed with a serious heart complaint.
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1907Gustav Maher is appointed the conductor of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
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1909 - 1910Gustav Mahler is the conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
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1909Gustav Mahler composes Das Lied von der Erde ('The Song of the Earth').
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1910Gustav Mahler conducts the premiere of his Eighth Symphony in Munich.
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18 May 1911Gustav Mahler dies in Vienna.