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Gustav Mahler

1860 - 1911

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Gustav Mahler (German: [ˈɡʊstaf ˈmaːlɐ] ; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect, which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 his compositions were rediscovered by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gustav Mahler is the 13th most popular composer, the 3rd most popular biography from Czechia (up from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Composer.

Gustav Mahler is most famous for his symphonies. He was a composer and conductor from Bohemia.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Gustav Mahler ranks 13 out of 1,451. Before him are Giuseppe Verdi, George Frideric Handel, Joseph Haydn, Richard Wagner, Franz Schubert, and Igor Stravinsky. After him are Johannes Brahms, Giacomo Puccini, Antonín Dvořák, Johann Strauss II, Robert Schumann, and Gioachino Rossini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Gustav Mahler ranks 1. After him are Anton Chekhov, Alphonse Mucha, Klara Hitler, Theodor Herzl, Eduard Buchner, Raymond Poincaré, Willem Einthoven, Isaac Albéniz, William Jennings Bryan, Niels Ryberg Finsen, and Kanō Jigorō. Among people deceased in 1911, Gustav Mahler ranks 1. After him are Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Wilhelm Dilthey, Francis Galton, Alfred Binet, Joseph Pulitzer, Pyotr Stolypin, Paul Lafargue, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Emilio Salgari, Georg Jellinek, and Jules Joseph Lefebvre.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Gustav Mahler ranks 3 out of 1,200. Before him are Sigmund Freud (1856), and Franz Kafka (1883). After him are Ivana Trump (1949), Gregor Mendel (1822), Antonín Dvořák (1841), Jan Hus (1369), John Amos Comenius (1592), Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316), Bedřich Smetana (1824), Milan Kundera (1929), and Oskar Schindler (1908).

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Among COMPOSERS In Czechia

Among composers born in Czechia, Gustav Mahler ranks 1. After him are Antonín Dvořák (1841), Bedřich Smetana (1824), Leoš Janáček (1854), Bohuslav Martinů (1890), Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679), Johann Stamitz (1717), Josef Mysliveček (1737), Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897), Josef Suk (1874), Anton Reicha (1770), and Eduard Hanslick (1825).

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