One movement of this piece contains the refrain "Dark is life, is death," and it ends with the line "Blue lights the horizon / forever... forever...
One movement of this piece contains the refrain "Dark is life, is death," and it ends with the line "Blue lights the horizon / forever... forever..." The last movement contains notoriously difficult-to-execute instructions to disregard the tempo and spill over barlines. The third movement is in the ternary and pentatonic, "Of Youth," while the second movement laments dying flowers and fleeting beauty, "The Lonely Soul in Autumn." This work features a horn theme in its "The Drunkard in Spring" movement, while the first movement is "The Drinking Song" of the land's misery. FTP, name this work inspired by the poetry of Li Po, a composition for two vocal soloists and orchestra by Gustav Mahler.
One movement of this piece contains the refrain "Dark is life, is death," and it ends with the line "Blue lights the horizon / forever... forever...
Das {Lied von der Erde} or The {Song of the Earth }