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Fact 2 - Date of Birth: Mahler was
born on May 7, 1860
- Fact 3 - Place of Birth: Kaliste, Bohemia (now Czech Republic)
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Fact 4 - Full Name: Gustav Mahler
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Fact 5 - Lifespan: 1860-1911
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Fact 6 - Name of mother and father:
His parents names were Bernhard Mahler and Marie - he was one
of 14 surviving children
- Fact 7 - Family background: Belonged to the German speaking
Jewish community as an innkeeper. The family moved to Moravia,
opened a tavern and a brewery and their finances improved
significantly
- Fact 8 -
Childhood and education: Gustav Mahler loved music and his
father was able to pay for music lessons and purchase a piano
for Gustav.
- Fact 9 - Gustav Mahler was
accepted at the Vienna Conservatory in 1875 and went on to
study at Vienna University
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Fact 10 - Gustav Mahler went on to
compose and work as a musical director in Liepzig, Prague, and
Budapest
- Fact 11 -
After the death of his parents Mahler moved to Vienna with his
younger siblings and became the Kapellmeister to the Vienna
Philharmonic
- Fact 12 -
His career became very successful and Gustav Mahler conducted
at the New York Philharmonic and Symphony Orchestra
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Fact 13 - Gustav Mahler converted to
Roman Catholicism in February 1897 which led to the position
of Kapellmeister at the prestigious Vienna Hofoper
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Fact 14 - Gustav Mahler married Alma
Schindler in 1902
- Fact
15 - He suffered from defective heart valves which led to his
death from bacterial endocarditis
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Fact 16 - Date of Death: Gustav
Mahler died on May 18, 1911 in Vienna
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Fact 17 - Gustav Mahler was buried in
the Grinzing cemetery
- Fact 18 - His music lives on and the musical works of Mahler
include the following:
- Das Lied von der Erde
Kindertotenlieder
Symphonies
•no.1, D (1888)
•no.2, c-E♭, with S, A, mixed v (1894)
•no.4, G-E,
with's (1900)
•no.5 c#-D (1902)
•no.6, a (1904)
•no.7, e-C (1905)
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