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Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) - the Austrian composer, conductor, opera producer. His creative activity took place in ???? places. Fmm 1880 he conducted different opera theatres in Austro-Hungary, including the Viennese Court Opera during the period of 1897-1907, from 1907 - in the USA, from 1897 he held performances in Russia.
Mahler is considered to be one of the most eminent and genuine symphonists of the world music history. His creation became the link between the romanticism of the 19th century and the 20th century's expressionism (first of all the New-Viennese school). Such distinguished composers of the 20th century as ?. Shostakovich, ?. Britten, ?. Schnitke were influenced by various aspects of his aesthetic method. The First Symphony was completed by Malher in 1888. Unlike Mahler’s next compositions of this genre it looks the purely instrumental one. The premiere took place on November 20, 1889 in Budapest. The author used to call it the ''symphonic ??? m'', although it consisted of five movements.
It was in 1893 when Mahler re-made the symphony and entitled it for to help the listeners trying to comprehend it. The name ''talent's delusion'' was given to it by the listeners ???? its first performance. The symphony got the title ''Titan'', its fourth movement was called ''March Funebre in Callot's Manner''. Both cpithets go back 1? the German classical literature: the first one refers to Jean-??ul’s novel of the ???? ????, the second one to ?. Th. ?. Hoffmann. As the listeners and the critics did not change their hearts when the symphony was represented again in Weimar, Mahler decided to take off the titles and programme to the Berlin performance in 1896. The composer also extracted the second movement (its title ''Blumine'' had been invented by Jean-Paul instead of the word ''flora''). The symphony had b??n consisting of four movements since that time till its last performance realized by the New-York symphony orchestra conducte