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  Symphony No. 8

  The Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major by Gustav Mahler, known as the Symphony of a Thousand, was mostly written in 1906, with its vast orchestration and final touches completed in 1907. Widely recognized as one of the composer's greatest achievements, the juxtaposition of sacred and secular texts in...
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  Symphony No. 1

  The Symphony No. 1 in D major is a symphony by Gustav Mahler first composed between 1884 and 1888 (with heavy subsequent revisions through 1894). The initial premiere was in Budapest in 1889, where it was presented as a five-movement symphonic poem under the title "Symphonische Dichtung in zwei...
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  Symphony No. 2

  The Symphony No. 2 by the Polish composer Witold Lutosławski is an orchestral composition in two movements written between 1965 and 1967. The work exhibits Lutosławski's technique of "limited aleatoricism", where the individual instrumental parts are notated exactly, but their precise co-ordination...

• Symphony No. 9

  The Symphony No. 9 in D major by Gustav Mahler was written in 1908 and 1909, and was the last symphony that he completed. The work is considered by many musicologists and critics to be the most intense of his symphonic works. Mahler was at this time a champion of the emerging avant-garde movement,...

• Symphony No. 7

  Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony was written in 1904-05 (scoring repeatedly revised). It is sometimes referred to by the title Song of the Night (German: Lied der Nacht), though this does not derive from Mahler and was not approved by him. In 1904, Mahler was enjoying great international success as...

• Symphony No. 5

  The Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler was written in 1901 and 1902 mostly during the summer months at Mahler's cottage at Maiernigg. It is arguably the best known Mahler symphony. Among its most distinctive landmarks are the funereal trumpet solo that opens the work and the frequently performed F...

• Symphony No. 10

  The Symphony No. 10 by Gustav Mahler was written in 1910, and was his final composition. At the time of Mahler's death the composition was substantially complete as a draft, but was unperformable in that state. Mahler started his work on his Tenth Symphony in July 1910 in Toblach, and ended his...

• Symphony No. 1

  The Symphony No. 1 in F minor (Opus 10) by Dmitri Shostakovich was written between 1924 and 1925, and first performed in Saint Petersburg by the Leningrad Philharmonic under Nikolai Malko on 12 May 1926. He wrote the work as his graduation piece at the Leningrad Conservatory, completing it at the...

• Das Lied von der Erde

  Das Lied von der Erde ("The Song of the Earth") is a large-scale work for two vocal soloists and orchestra by the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler. Laid out in six separate movements, each of them an independent song, the work is described on the title-page as Eine Symphonie für eine Tenor- und eine...

• Symphony No. 4

  The Symphony No. 4 in G major by Gustav Mahler was written between 1899 and 1901 -- though it incorporates a song originally written in 1892. The presence of this song means that the four-movement orchestral work features a solo soprano in the finale. The song, "Das himmlische Leben", presents a...