Kindertotenlieder is a song cycle for voice and orchestra by Gustav Mahler. The words of the songs are poems by Friedrich Rückert.
Pencil portrait of Mahler by Emil Orlík, c. 1903
Portrait of Friedrich Rückert in 1864 by Bertha Froriep [de]
Gustav Mahler was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century tradition and the modernism of
Kindertotenlieder
…Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children) is a song cycle (1904) for voice and orchestra by Gustav Mahler. The words of the songs are poems by Friedrich Rückert. The original Kindertodtenlieder were a group of 428 poems written by Rückert in 1833–34 in an…
Gustav Mahler, photographed in 1907 by Moritz Nähr at the end of his period as director of the Vienna Hofoper
Jihlava, the city where Mahler grew up
Mahler, as a student, was influenced by Richard Wagner and later became a leading interpreter of Wagner's operas.
Mahler's home in Leipzig, where he composed his First Symphony