Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) was an Austrian-Bohemian Romantic composer and conductor, known for his monumental symphonies that grapple with mortality, transcendence, and the cosmos. His symphonies—particularly the 2nd (Resurrection), 5th, 6th, and 9th—are landmarks of late Romanticism.
Expanded the symphony to encompass the full range of human experience; his late-Romantic synthesis bridges the 19th and 20th centuries.
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