Gustav Mahler was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation.
After graduating from the Vienna Conservatory in 1878, he held a succession of conducting posts of rising importance in the opera houses of Europe, culminating in his appointment in 1897 as director of the Vienna Court Opera (Hofoper).
Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 in D major was composed in 1884-88.
The subtitle “Giant” is well known, but after that it was deleted by himself.
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