For ten points, name this unnumbered symphony for contrabass and orchestra by Gustav Mahler.
It opens with a song built around the line "Dark is life; dark is death" and later describes a nightmare in which an ape crouches on graves. Its second movement, The Lonely One in Autumn, uses the season as a metaphor for loneliness at death. The thirty-minute finale, The Farewell, is a funeral march tinged with assurances of rebirth. In between are celebrations of the joys of life: Of Youth, Of Beauty, and The Drunkard in Spring. Inspired by the diagnosis of a potentially fatal heart ailment, this work is a setting of Hans Bethge's loose, often misattributed translations of Chinese poems. For ten points, name this unnumbered symphony for contrabass and orchestra by Gustav Mahler.
It opens with a song built around the line "Dark is life; dark is death" and later describes a nightmare in which an ape crouches on graves.
Das {L}{ied von der erde} [The {Song of the Earth}]