Fünf Lieder (“Five Songs”)

Composer: MAHLER, Alma
  • This collection of five songs was likely written circa 1900-1901, before the composer’s marriage to Gustav Mahler. Though Gustav Mahler was not a creative influence on the songs, he did help Alma Mahler prepare this collection for publication in 1910.1
  • Alma Mahler’s songs are consistently chromatic, dramatic, and text-driven. Every musical gesture is in service of the text.2
  1. Die stille Stadt (“The silent town”)
  2. In meines Vaters Garten (“In my father’s garden”)
  3. Laue Sommernacht (“Mild summer night”)
  4. Bei dir ist es traut (“I feel warm and close with you”)
  5. Ich wandle unter Blumen (“I wander among flowers”)

Sources

  1. Diane Follet, “Redeeming Alma: The Songs of Alma Mahler,” College Music Symposium 44 (2004): 28–42, accessed August 2, 2022, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40374487.
  2. Ibid.

Cut IDs

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