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Oskar Fried (1871-1941).

Gustav Mahler and Oskar Fried (1871-1941) standing in front of a photo of Arthur Nikisch (1855-1922). Photo Mahler/Fried taken 08-11-1905 in Berlin.

Oskar Fried was a German ledare and composer. An admirer of Gustav Mahler, Fried was the first conductor to record a Mahler symphony. Fried also held the distinction of being the first foreign conductor to perform in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. He eventually left his homeland to work in the Soviet Union after the political rise of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party, and became a Soviet citizen in 1940.

Born in Berlin, the son of a Jewish shopkeeper, he worked as a clown, a stable boy and a dog trainer before studying composition with Iwan Knorr (1891–92, Hoch Conservatory) and Engelbert Humperdinck (as private student) in Frankfurt. He later moved to Düsseldorf to study painting and art history. After a spell in Paris, he returned to Berlin in 1898 to study counterpoint with Xaver Scharwenka.

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Mahler Listening GuideSymphony no. 3 in D Minor

30 Jan 2015

by Bettie Jo Basinger

Gustav Mahler

Work History

In terms of its metaphysical “content,” Symphony no. 3 in D Minor has a complicated history, even though Mahler composed the piece in a relatively short amount of time. He commenced work with the second movement during June of 1895, and he had finished this movement, together with the subsequent ones, by the end of that summer. Yet despite this seemingly quick pace, the composer struggled with how to order these movements, as well as whether to include as a seventh, “Das himmlische Leben” (“The Heavenly Life”) of 1892, a Lied based on a text drawn from the folksong collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn). Because he planned to unify the symphony by basing the music of the first movement on this same Wunderhorn song, Mahler necessarily delayed its completion until he decided what would serve as the work&