The angst-ridden third section of this work describes both the narrator's feeling of a metaphorical knife wound in his heart and a temptation to physically stab himself.
The angst-ridden third section of this work describes both the narrator's feeling of a metaphorical knife wound in his heart and a temptation to physically stab himself. In its final movement, a funeral march plays as the singer finds rest under a linden tree, but not before a motif from the horns reminds him of his love object's two blue eyes. This four movement work opens with a march marking his love's wedding to another man, and was inspired by an early bout of unrequited love the composer had for Johanna Richter. The composer's later Titan Symphony incorporated melodies from, FTP, what poetically accompanied song cycle for voice and orchestra in which Gustav Mahler describes himself as a lovelorn journeyman?
The angst-ridden third section of this work describes both the narrator's feeling of a metaphorical knife wound in his heart and a temptation to physically stab himself.
{Songs of a Wayfarer} or {Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen}