Hello and I'm a conductor,

and I'm the Artistic Director of the Lozan Chamber Orchestra in Lausanne, Switzerland.

This podcast is for anyone who loves classical music, works in the field,

or is just getting ready to dive into this amazing world of incredible music.

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these shows on Mahler's 6 on Patreon. On to Mahler's 6th Symphony. Maler's life was a basket of contradictions. He was a man of nearly manic working habits, but he was just as committed to taking day-long hikes in the countryside to get away from it all.

He was committed to a humanistic philosophy in both his personal life and his music and yet he insisted that his new

wife Alma serve him for his every need and to stop composing for herself.

He was always looking, searching, pleading for happiness and fulfillment, but almost never was able to find it.

Except in the years of 1903 and 1904.

Moller was married and his relationship with his wife was for the moment a happy one, and his two daughters were happy and healthy.

And yet Maler, a brand new father, ruminated endlessly on their future deaths.

During these two happy years he wrote perhaps two of his bleakest works,

the Kindertoten leader, songs on the deaths of children,

and his sixth symphony, which he originally called the tragic a

title he would later withdraw.

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