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GUSTAV MAHLER 1860-1911

Gustav Mahler, at age five (below left) in the earliest known photograph; with beard at age twenty-one in 1881; (right top) his wife, Alma, and their two daughters, Maria and Anna, in 1906; at the coast (bottom right) of the North Sea; and in a cartoon making fun of the unusual instruments (including cowbell and forging hammer) he orchestrated into his Sixth Symphony.

Severance Hall 2012-13

Gustav Mahler

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