The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi . . .
"Gustav Mahler" was a late-Romantic music/Romantic composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born to a Jewish family in the village of Kališt? (Pelh?imov District)/Kalischt in Kingdom of Bohemia/Bohemia, in what was then the Austrian Empire, now Kališt? (Pelh?imov District)/Kališt? in the Czech Republic. His family later moved to nearby Jihlava/Iglau, where Mahler grew up.
As a composer, Mahler acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the Modernism (music)/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 Germany/Nazi era. After 1945 the music was discovered and championed by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became a frequently performed and recorded composer, a position he has sustained into the 21st century.
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A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
Fortissimo at last!( on seeing Niagara Falls ).
At last, fortissimo! [On visiting Niagara].
Don't bother looking at the view -- I have already composed it.
Can this be endured at all? Won't people kill themselves afterwards?
If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
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