Mahler’s 8th symphony celebrates its 103rd anniversary today.

Mahler’s 8th symphony celebrates its 103rd anniversary today.

  Today, September 12th is the day in 1910 when Gustav Mahler’s monolithic symphonic cantata the Symphony no 8 premiered in Munich. Mahler underwent much soul searching as he wrote it, but the audiences loved it, awarding the performance with a 20 minute ovation. Mahler himself conducted the premiere  for which the impresario Emil Gutman…