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Gustav Mahler
Austria
07.07.1860
18.05.1911
- Symphony No. 4 G major
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- The Song of the Earth
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- Symphony No. 10 (rec. Deryck Cooke)
- Songs of a Wayfarer
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- Symphony No. 9 D major
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- The Youth's Magic Horn
- Symphony No. 10 (Adagio)
- Songs on the Death of Children
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- Song of Lamentation
- Piano Quartet A minor
- Symphony No. 8 E-flat major, "Symphony of a Thousand"
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