Gustav Mahler Biography

Birth of Gustav Mahler

Admitted to the Vienna Conservatoire where he studied piano under Julius Epstein, harmony with Robert Fuchs, and composition with Franz Krenn

Admitted to the Vienna Conservatoire where he studied piano under Julius Epstein, harmony with Robert Fuchs, and composition with Franz Krenn

Takes over conducting Wagners Der Ring des Nibelungen from an ill Arthur Nikisch, firmly establishing his reputation among critics and public alike

Composes, "Symphony No 1"

First long-term appointment was at the Hamburg Opera in 1891, where he stays until 1897

Given the directorship of the Vienna Opera, the most prestigious musical position in the Austrian Empire

Completes the final revision of Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor/D major

Mahler marries Alma Schindler (1879 -1964), twenty years his junior and the stepdaughter of the noted Viennese painter Carl Moll

Completes the final revision of Symphony No. 2 in C minor

Completes the final revision of Symphony No. 7 in E minor

Completes the final revision of Symphony No. 6 in A minor. Completes the final revision of Symphony No. 3 in D minor. Completes the final revision of Symphony No. 1 in D major

Completes the final revision of Symphony No. 6 in A minor. Completes the final revision of Symphony No. 3 in D minor. Completes the final revision of Symphony No. 1 in D major

Completes the final revision of Symphony No. 6 in A minor. Completes the final revision of Symphony No. 3 in D minor. Completes the final revision of Symphony No. 1 in D major

Completes Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major

Completes Symphony No. 9 in D major. Completes Symphony Das Lied von der Erde (subtitled A Symphony for One Tenor and One Alto (or Baritone) Voice and Orchestra, After Hans Bethges "The Chinese Flute")

Completes Symphony No. 9 in D major. Completes Symphony Das Lied von der Erde (subtitled A Symphony for One Tenor and One Alto (or Baritone) Voice and Orchestra, After Hans Bethges "The Chinese Flute")

Completes the final revision of Symphony No. 4 in G major. Completes his Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), and his Symphony No. 9, which would be his last completed work

Completes the final revision of Symphony No. 4 in G major. Completes his Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), and his Symphony No. 9, which would be his last completed work

Completes the final revision of Symphony No. 4 in G major. Completes his Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), and his Symphony No. 9, which would be his last completed work

Symphony No. 10 (1910-1911) (unfinished; a continuous "beginning-to-end" draft of 1,945 bars exists, but much of it is not fully elaborated and most of it not orchestrated.)

Mahlefallls seriously ill with a streptococcal blood infection, and conducts his last concert in a fever

Taken to Paris, where a new serum had recently been developed, does not respond and is taken back to Vienna at his request where he dies from his infection on 18 May 1911 at the age of 50, leaving his Symphony No. 10 unfinished. Death of Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahlers 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna