Mahler's Symphony No. 8 (Symphony of a Thousand)
1910 · Work
With more than a thousand performers setting a medieval hymn and the close of Goethe's Faust, the premiere in Munich is the greatest triumph of Mahler's life.
On these timelines: Classical Music, Arts and Thoughts, Master, Germany
More from Classical Music
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770)
- Handel's Messiah (1742)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840)
- Giuseppe Verdi (1813)
- Johannes Brahms (1833)
- Claude Debussy (1862)
- Dvořák's New World Symphony (1893)
Around 1910
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- World War I (1914)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)
- Pop music: the 1900s (1900)