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Gustav Mahler, born on July 7th, 1860 in Kaliste Bohemia, was a world famous composer of symphonies and lieder cycles. At the time of his existents, Bohemia was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the region where Mahler spent his youth was strongly associated with the Czech independence movement. Mahler began rising to fame when he became the musical director at the Vienna Opera where under his leadership he went through its golden age. The time period in which he began writing music was considered to be the romantic period where the music reflected the society out of which it arose. He served as the conductor of the Metropolitan Opera with Toscanni in the United States along with solely directing the New York Philharmonic. Mahler’s works were most known for their length, depth, and painful emotions where his orchestral music was said to be clear, complex, and full of musical imagery. Des Knaben Wunderhorn was the title of a large collaborative collection of poems written in German folk style by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano and was said to be the most important literary influence on the young Gustav Mahler. It has been noted that the musical settings he made of the texts in the folk poetry permeated his early symphonies. He encountered the poetry in the early 1880s, he wrote two-and-a-half volumes of songs inspired by the collection.
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