Mahler Contemporaries (Live)

Featuring

Pavel Jirák
Peter Sobotka
Petra Froese
Ladislava Vondráčková
Felix Rumpf
Tereza Nováková

Choir Association Campanula Jihlava
Josef Bohuslav Foerster
Karl Goldmark
Hugo Wolf
Arnold Schoenberg
Richard Strauss
Pauline Viardot-García
Hans Rott
Alphons Diepenbrock
Bruno Walter

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Composer Biography

Pauline Viardot, a famous 19th-century mezzo-soprano and pupil of Franz Liszt, was considered a 'female genius' by Liszt but chose to pursue an operatic career over composition.

Composer Biography

Carl Goldmark, a Hungarian composer of Jewish extraction, was self-taught in composition but became a respected musical personality in Vienna.

Composer Biography

Arnold Schönberg, an Austrian composer and music theorist, greatly admired and promoted Gustav Mahler, who was a significant inspiration for him.

Composer Biography

Hugo Wolf, an Austrian composer, was friends with Gustav Mahler during his studies at the Vienna Conservatoire.

Composition History

Josef Bohuslav Foerster's Stabat Mater, Op. 56, was inspired by the death of his mother before he finished secondary education, reflecting tenderness, love, and forgiveness rather than pain.

Composition History

Richard Strauss's song Ruhe, meine Seele!, Op. 27 No. 1, was given by the composer to his wife, soprano Pauline de Ahna, as a wedding present in 1894.

Composer Biography

Josef Bohuslav Foerster, a Czech composer, was married to opera singer Berta Lautererová and lived abroad in Hamburg and Vienna for 25 years during her engagements.