For 10 points, name this Austrian composer of the Titan Symphony and the Symphony of a Thousand.
One of his earliest works was the cantata the Song of Lament and he set a bunch of folk-poems to music in his work The Young Lad's Magic Horn. "Now the sun wants to rise as brightly" is the first of the poems by Friedrich Ruckert that he set to music in his Songs on the Death of Children and Hans Bethge's translation of ancient Chinese poetry inspired his work The Song of the Earth. His first symphony features a funeral march based on the theme of "Frere Jacques" and his eighth symphony was partially based on the hymn Veni creator spiritus and nicknamed for the large number of performers required. For 10 points, name this Austrian composer of the Titan Symphony and the Symphony of a Thousand.
One of his earliest works was the cantata the Song of Lament and he set a bunch of folk-poems to music in his work
Gustav {Mahler}