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#Mahler Introductory thread of #DasLied (DLvdE) The first three songs are briefly analyzed. I included streaming options, the poems have links on each of them as well, so you can read as you listen.
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Mahler completed Das Lied von der Erde in September 1908. It was his intent not numbering it a ‘Ninth Symphony’ for the superstitious belief that ‘no great composer lives to create after his Ninth’.
He first thought of calling the symphony Das Lied vom Jammer der Erde (The Song of the Misery of the Earth), but he settled on DLvdE because according to his friend Richard Specht: Mahler was emotionally drained and felt that a ‘farewell’ described more clearly his experience.
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