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Check out Wikipedia; Gustav Mahler is today’s featured article!

I’m not quite as Mahler-obsessed as I was a couple years ago.  I was on a coordinated campaign then, purchasing as many recordings of Mahler’s symphonies and song cycles as I could get my hands on.  And though I now know most of his works pretty well, some, like the Seventh Symphony, remain a mystery.

Des Knaben Wunderhorn, on the other hand, are approachable, hummable Lieder.  My favorites of the set are “Lob des hohen Verstandes” and this song, “Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?”.

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Filed under: Music on July 7th, 2010