Gustav Mahler - a biography: his life and his places (Documentary)

Gustav Mahler: a biography in words and pictures. The places where Mahler worked and the most important people of his life (documentary).

00:00 Intro
00:46 His origins
01:44 Musical precocity
02:38 Formative childhood years
05:25 Conservatory time and steep career as a Kapellmeister
07:02 Disappointments as a composer
08:00 Death of parents - next stop: Hamburg
10:01 Famous composer colleagues
11:14 Conversion to Catholicism
12:00 Court opera director in Vienna
12:43 Friends and enemies in Vienna
15:56 The first major turning point 1902
19:03 Conducting tours in winter and composer in summer
19:46 The second great turning point 1907
20:57 The last years

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Mahler played the accordion at age four?
Tell me it was a smaller than standard size!

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Sorry but Kaliste (about 2 km down the road from here ) is not in Moravia but formally east Bohemias now Vyscocina