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Mahler's Inner Circle

California Symphony

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Alexander Zemlinsky fell in love with his composition student Alma Schindler, but she rejected him and married Gustav Mahler. Lustspiel Overture’s lush melodies echo those of Brahms, who was a supporter of the young Zemlinsky. Alma Schindler was an accomplished composer before she gave it up to marry Gustav Mahler. Within a few years, unfulfilled and depressed, she had an affair, which prompted Gustav to take Alma’s musical ambitions more serious...

Program

Alma Mahler - Five Songs

Composer

Johann Nepomuk Karl Maria Rott - Symphony No. 1

Composer

Alexander von Zemlinsky - Lustspiel Overture

Composer

Participants

Sara Couden

Contralto

Donato Cabrera

Conductor