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What Was Mahler's Major Accomplishments

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Gustav Mahler was born on the seventh of July in eighteen sixty. His place of birth was Bohemia, Austria, and he was born to Jewish Tavern Keepers. Mahler’s early life was full of strife and dysfunction, watching his father mistreat his mother due to discrepancies in their social status. This caused Mahler to develop a psychosomatic limp, which imitated the lameness of his mother’s leg, whom he was most attached too in all the world. Mahler also watched many of his 11 siblings lose battles with illness and became fixated on death at a particularly early age, furthering his alienation from what most people would have considered to be normal.
Mahler was something of a child prodigy. Similar to that of the late Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mahler …show more content…

The first symphonic trilogy followed the example of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, built with more than the traditional four movements. This basis, combined with Mahler’s incredibly unique style rocked the socks off of the aristocracy of the time and was heavily influenced by his tragic childhood.
Though he worked pretty diligently during his middle period, Mahler sort of lost his way during his third and final leg of creating symphonies. He was forty-seven years old at the start of this period in his life, and would die only two years later from the weak heart he inherited from his mother. His pieces during this period, rather ironically, were embodiments of his final attempts to wrap his mind around death.
In the midst of all his rapid music writing/composing and attempts at coming to terms with the lemons life had given him, Mahler married a woman by the name of Alma Schindler, who was also a composer. The couple went on to have two daughters, Maria and Anna, the latter being born two years after her sister in 1904. It was in Mahler’s tenth and final symphony that he stopped writing about the death and sadness surrounding his childhood and early adulthood and began focusing on his already crumbling marriage. His wife Alma was having an affair, and while this piece was never finished before Mahler passed away, it is considered today the most pure form of his

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