• Origin and childhood 
• First music lessons

VIENNA - PRENTICE YEARS

• Studies at the conservatory 
• Gustav Mahler and Anton Bruckner 
• The Viennese Beethoven contest 

MAHLER AND HIS „INFERNAL THEATER LIFE"

• 1880 - Professional orientation 
• 1880 - conductor in Bad Hall and Laibach 
• 1883 - Olmütz, Vienna and Kassel 
• 1885-1886 - Prague 
• 1886 - Leipzig 
• 1888 - 1891 - Budapest
• 1891 - 1897 - Hamburg
• Mahler as conductor of the „philharmonic concerts"

Memorial places and important places in Austria for Mahler's life

Further reading

MAHLER AND THE OPERA OF VIENNA

• The opera of Vienna before Gustav Mahler's direction
• 1896-1897 - The „conquest" of the Viennese court opera
• 1897-1907 - Director of the opera of Vienna
• Mahler's theater practice
• Mahler's famous ensemble at the court opera
• Mahler and the stage designer Alfred Roller
• Mahler's Mozart cycle
• The end of Mahler's direction - the last years in his life

MAHLER`S COMPOSITIONAL MAIN WORK

• About the symphonies
• The First Symphony
• The Second Symphony
• The Third Symphony
• The Fourth Symphony
• The Fifth Symphony
• The Sixth Symphony
• The Seventh Symphony
• The Eight Symphony
• The Ninth Symphony
• The Tenth Symphony
• „Das Lied von der Erde"