m.youtube/watch?v=dt1q2Z1s5p8 Mahler -The original Kindertotenlieder were a group of 428 poems written by Rückert in 1833–34] in reaction to the illness (scarlet fever) and death of two of his children. Karen Painter, associate professor of musicology at the University of Minnesota, describes the poems thus: Rückerts 428 poems on the death of children became singular, almost manic documents of the psychological endeavor to cope with such loss. In ever new variations Rückerts poems attempt a poetic resuscitation of the children that is punctuated by anguished outbursts. But above all the poems show a quiet acquiescence to fate and to a peaceful world of solace.[2] These poems were not intended for publication.[2] Mahler selected five of Rückerts poems to set as Lieder, which he composed between 1901 and 1904. The songs are written in Mahlers late-romantic idiom, and like the texts reflect a mixture of feelings: anguish, fantasy resuscitation of the children, resignation. The final song ends in a major key and a mood of transcendence. The cello melody in the postlude to In diesem Wetter, in diesem Braus (mm. 129–133) alludes to the first subject of the finale of Mahlers Symphony No. 3 (1895/96), a movement titled What love tells me (Was mir die Liebe erzählt). Musically, then, this is the last word of the Kindertotenlieder: that death is powerful, yet love is even stronger
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