Gustav Mahler, in his younger days, was a vegetarian. There's a story, recounted by one of his biographers, about how the composer was teased by fellow musicians in a restaurant when he refused ...

Mahler plays Mahler: The Welte-Mignon Piano Rolls (Yvonne Kenny, soprano; Claudine Carlson, mezzo-soprano; Golden Legacy/Pickwick). The four piano rolls Gustav Mahler “recorded” for the Welte ...

Courtesy photoConductor and composer Gustav Mahler traveled with the 85 musicians of the New York Philharmonic on its Great Lakes Tour. It began in Pittsburgh and moved on to Cleveland, Buffalo ...

A Gustav Mahler festival featuring all his symphonies and other major works is taking place at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam through May 18.

The very first note of Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony signals that you’re in for something on a whole new scale. It’s a single note, an A, in the strings, quiet and sustained, evoking the ...

Gustav Mahler died in 1911 of bacterial endocarditis, an inflammation of the valves of an already weakened heart. But perhaps his heart was also broken in the more poetic sense. A year before, the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Now we know why Gustav Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony No. 2 is the Cleveland Orchestra’s season opener. Hint: It isn’t just because music director Franz Welser-Most ...

For the first time in more than a decade, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra performs one of the most powerful symphonic ...

With the exception of a few songs and song cycles, the symphony as a musical form was the be all and end all for Gustav Mahler. He composed no concertos, hardly any chamber music, and though he ...

Gustav Mahler is among the most widely listened to of classical composers. Last year, which marked the 100th anniversary of his death, witnessed concerts, new recordings, lectures and exhibitions ...

KALISTE, CZECH REPUBLIC — I slept very well in the house where Gustav Mahler was born, waking in the morning to the bright sound of chirping birds in the trees outside my window. Once a shop and ...