Unsung Composers

The Music => Composers & Music => Topic started by: christoph on Thursday 17 March 2016, 16:37

Title: Youth symphonies
Post by: christoph on Thursday 17 March 2016, 16:37
Otto Mahler, brother of Gustav Mahler, wrote 3 symphonies and committed suicide when he was 22 years old.
Greetings, christoph.
Title: Re: Youth symphonies
Post by: Alan Howe on Thursday 17 March 2016, 18:08
Wikipedia has this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Mahler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Mahler)
He was actually only 21 when he died.
Title: Re: Youth symphonies
Post by: Mark Thomas on Friday 18 March 2016, 11:47
Who knew? Certainly not me. I wonder what the symphonies, or at least anything which survives of them, sound like in view of Gustav Mahler's assertion that his brother was the more gifted of the two? I wonder where the manuscripts might be?
Title: Re: Youth symphonies
Post by: sdtom on Friday 18 March 2016, 21:47
all good questions
Title: Re: Youth symphonies
Post by: Mark Thomas on Friday 18 March 2016, 22:15
Unfortunately, I don't have any answers.  :(