Gustav Mahler
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Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and conductor.
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- Ich weiß für mich, daß ich, solang ich mein Erlebnis in Worten zusammenfassen kann, gewiß keine Musik hierüber machen würde.
- If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
- Variant: For myself I know that, as long as I can summarize my experience in words, I would certainly not make any music about it.
- Letter to Max Marschalk (1896-03-26). Original German text cited from: Blaukopf, Herta (ed.). Gustav Mahler. Briefe. 2nd edition. Zsolnay, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-552-04810-3, p. 171.
