Symphonic poem

1893, he visited Lake Assertee in Upper Austria and purchased land there. For the rest of his life, summers were dedicated to composing.(Biography) He composed his Second and Third symphonies there which were heavily influenced by the Wunderhorn folk-poem collection. Mahler’s First and Second Symphonies were received well with the Second being performed in 1895, the same year of his younger brother’s suicide. He was later forced to step down from his position after poor financial returns and…

Beethoven had a traumatic childhood even if he grew up surrounded by music. Ludwig van Beethoven was born around December 16, 1770, and baptized on December 17 in Bonn, located in the now-nonexistent Electorate of Cologne (“Ludwig van Beethoven”). His parents, Johann van Beethoven and Maria Magdalena van Beethoven, had to bury two children before Ludwig, and celebrated his successful birth. Maria bore Johann two more sons after Ludwig: Caspar Carl, born in 1774 and Nickolaus Johann, born in 1776…