Unlike a normal symphony, it contains six movements including The Farewell, Drunk in Spring, and Autumn Loneliness, all of which contain voice parts.
Shortly before the composition of this piece, the composer was diagnosed with having a valvular malformation of the heart, and his eldest daughter "Putzi" had earlier died of scarlet fever. Unlike a normal symphony, it contains six movements including The Farewell, Drunk in Spring, and Autumn Loneliness, all of which contain voice parts. Its composer was prompted to write it after his discovery of Hans Bethge's The Chinese Flute, a collection of poems adapted from the original Chinese. FTP name this piece, which Gustav Mahler did not call a symphony because it would have been his ninth.
Shortly before the composition of this piece, the composer was diagnosed with having a valvular malformation of the heart, and his eldest daughter "Putzi" had earlier died of scarlet fever.
The Song of the Earth or Das Lied von der Erde