Gustav Mahler composed Das Lied von der Erde during the summer of 1908 in his holiday house in Toblach. The superb landscapes of the Dolomites brought him the repose he had sorely lacked during the particularly agitated and tragic year of 1907. The work forms a perfect symbiosis of two genres–Lied and symphony, a fusion that Mahler had been pursuing all his life. He brought together all the expressive means in his possession in order to create a personal and specific world. Mahler himself declared that “ forme a symphony means building a world with all existing technical means.”

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