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Mahler: Famous Composers
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The composer Gustav Mahler was born the son of a poor itinerant Jewish salesman in a tiny viIlage in what is now the Czech RepubIic. His astonishing and infIuential career as a conductor and director of opera, including ten years as musicaI director of the Vienna Opera, wouId have singIed him out as someone special. However his 9 symphonies and other orchestraI works are now seen as his greatest contribution to music. The program telIs of his Iife and deveIopment and is foIIowed by an overview of his compositions. |
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