Gustav Mahler

✶July 7, 1860

†May 18, 1911

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About their life

Gustav Mahler was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century 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 his compositions were rediscovered by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century.

Austrian late-Romantic composer (1860–1911)

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Biography from the article Gustav Mahler on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.