Narodowa Orkiestra Symfoniczna Polskiego Radia NOSPR
Gustav Mahler
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Composition History
Mahler's Symphony No. 1 was first completed in 1888, five years before Dvořák's Symphony From the New World and five years after Brahms's last symphony.
Compositional Technique
The third movement of Mahler's First Symphony makes satirical use of a minor version of the children's song "Frère Jacques" within a solemn funeral march.
Composition History
The symphony's later title, "Titan," refers to a novel of that name by early Romantic writer Jean Paul, in which two "titans" struggle for intellectual freedom or pleasure.
Performer Biography
The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra of Katowice (PNRSO) was founded in 1935 by Polish conductor and composer Grzegorz Fitelberg and resurrected in 1945 after World War II.
Composer Biography
Gustav Mahler, the composer, saw himself as "three times homeless": a native of Bohemia in Austria, an Austrian among Germans, and a Jew throughout the whole world.
Composition History
The "Blumine" movement, originally the second movement of the symphony, was discarded by Mahler after the first three performances but rediscovered in 1966 by Mahler scholar Donald Mitchell.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Mahler strongly believed that music should stand on its own without verbal explanation, even if a literary program lay behind a composition.
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