Three of his first four opuses, Five Songs, a setting of "Flee on Gentle Boats," and Five Songs from "The Seventh Ring," were set to poems by Stefan George.
Three of his first four opuses, Five Songs, a setting of "Flee on Gentle Boats," and Five Songs from "The Seventh Ring," were set to poems by Stefan George. His cantata The Light of the Eyes and his Three Songs on Viae Inviae were the product of his close friendship with the poet Hildegard Jone, and he also wrote lieder on poems by Goethe and Rilke. Mahler's influence can be seen his early Passacaglia, one of the only works in which he used key signatures, written before his development as a serialist composer of instrumental works like Six Pieces for Orchestra. FTP, name this Austrian, who, along with Alban Berg, made his name as a successor to his teacher, Arnold Schoenberg.
Three of his first four opuses, Five Songs, a setting of "Flee on Gentle Boats," and Five Songs from "The Seventh Ring," were set to poems by Stefan George.
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