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Symphony by Gustav Mahler

The Symphony No. 2 in C minor by Gustav Mahler, known as the Resurrection Symphony, was written between 1888 and 1894, and first performed in 1895.

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Mahler first composed it as a song with piano accompaniment in about , before scoring it for orchestra in the version now held by the.

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Born at Kaliště in Bohemia, the son of a Jewish pedlar, Gustav Mahler later described himself as three times homeless: a Bohemian in Austria.

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This symphony was one of Mahler's most popular and successful works during his lifetime. It was his first major work that established his lifelong view of the beauty of afterlife and resurrection. In this large work, the composer further developed the creativity of "sound of the distance" and creating a "world of its own", aspects already seen in his First Symphony.

The work has a duration of 80 to 90 minutes, and is conventionally labelled as being in the key of C minor; the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians labels the work's tonality as C minor–E♭ major.^[1] It was voted the fifth-greatest symphony of all time in a survey of conductors carried out by the BBC Music Magazine.^[2]

Origin

Mahler completed what would become the first