From June 25th to July 26th, the exhibition "The composer-humanist” dedicated to the 150th birthday of Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) is open at the Music and Audio Material Reading Room (room 305).
Gustav Mahler is the outstanding Austrian composer and conductor, author of monumental musical compositions for orchestra, one of the major opera and symphonic conductors. His music reveals the tendencies of late romanticism and the features of expressionism. Gustav Mahler’s creative activity centers on a steady search of answers to the eternal questions of human existence, and on the theme of human suffering caused by a painful perception of social and spiritual contradictions of the epoch.
Gustav Mahler’s creative heritage comprises 10 symphonies (including an unfinished one). Once the composer said that, to him, composing a symphony meant building a new world by all means of musical technique.
The composer is the author of the symphony-cantata for soloists and orchestra “Song of the Earth” (1909), vocal cycles, including those for a voice with orchestra “Songs of a Wayfarer” (1883–1885), “Songs on the death of Children” (lyrics by F. Ruckert) and others. The song cycle “The Youth’s Magic Horn” (1892–1998) became the crown of his work.
The exhibition presents printed music by Gustav Mahler, audio records of his musical compositions performed by the outstanding conductors of the XX century (K. Kondrashin, L. Bernstein), and also articles and books on the composer’s creative activity.
Contact phone number: (+375-17) 293-27-52.
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
