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| Tumba de Gustav Mahler en el cementerio de Grinzing, en Viena, diseñada por J. Hoffmann |
Hoy se cumplen cien años de la muerte de Gustav Mahler, el compositor que más se acerca en la construcción de sus obras a un novelista. El universo sonoro de Mahler, bien podría ser el del argumento de una novela de Thomas Mann. Y no porque el adagietto de su Quinta Sinfonía vaya unido en nuestra memoria a las bellísimas imágenes que Visconti realizó de una Venecia moribunda.
Mahler, melancholy and joyful resignation and despair, always between Eros and Thanatos, and always a perfectionist, was the link which united the classical symphonic music of Beethoven and Brahms with the Second Viennese School of Berg, Schoenberg and Webern . His works are different shades glide, almost all his symphonies end in a tone different from that with which they start - and herald the end of the harmonic principles which were sacred until then.
Mahler, the director of the Imperial Opera in Vienna, the Jewish convert to Catholicism, contemporary Viennese Secession, Zweig, Gropius, Mann, Joyce and Freud, among others, the admirer of Wagner, the witness of a splendid era in Central Europe, the troubled husband of Alma Schindler, also known as the mistress of Europe for their troubled love life was also a conductor very remarkable in that years later would have looked the greatest contemporary conductors.
Mahler, the composer of the orchestra disproportionate and almost eternal movements had, however, the skill and genius in his compositions enter intimate pieces, typical of chamber music, with touches of popular music, which failed to understand his contemporaries and that he countered with four words: "Meine Zeit wird kommen ', ie, my time will come .
Mahler I am nothing, I acknowledge that I care much more the environment in which he lived his music and I find it hard to choose a piece of his work, so I decided to put one of his first symphony in D major, 'Titan', directed by Kubelik because I did not find any you tube led by Bruno Walter that lasts half an hour. ' Titan' premiered in Budapest on November 20, 1889 and critics called it irreverent, sterile, trivial and a monstrous eccentricity. Clearly it was not his time.
Mahler I am nothing, I acknowledge that I care much more the environment in which he lived his music and I find it hard to choose a piece of his work, so I decided to put one of his first symphony in D major, 'Titan', directed by Kubelik because I did not find any you tube led by Bruno Walter that lasts half an hour. ' Titan' premiered in Budapest on November 20, 1889 and critics called it irreverent, sterile, trivial and a monstrous eccentricity. Clearly it was not his time.
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