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Edward MacDowell
Gustav Mahler

Pietro Mascagni

Jules Emile Massenet

Edward MacDowell
b. 12-18-1860; NYC
d. 1-23-1908; MacDowell Colony, Hillcrest Farm, New Hampshire

Edward MacDowell was a composer and pianist. His wife Marian Nevins MacDowell established a colony for artists where an estimated 5,100 writers, poets, playwrights, artists and composers have been supported in residence, with at least 61 Pulitzer Prizes.

Gustav Mahler
b. 7-7-1860; Bohemia
d. 5-18-1911

Late-Romantic period Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler is one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers. Mahler is also noted for his intrepretation of Richard Wagner's work.

FYI - Mahler married Alma Schindler, an aspiring composer, in 1902, insisting that she drop her musical aspiration. This lead to her dissatisfaction with the marriage and several affairs (Walter Gropius, Oskar Kokoschka) that are portrayed in the 2001 movie Bride of the Wind.

Gustav Mahler quotes ~
• “An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.”

• Mahler: The Complete Works 150th Anniversary Box Set CD

Pietro Mascagni
b. 12-7-1863; Italy
d. 8-2-1945

Composer and conductor Pietro Mascagni, who wrote a total of seventeen operas and operetta, several orchestral and vocal works, as well as songs and piano music, is most noted for his 1890 one act masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana. Cavalieria is performed very often with Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo.

• Cav & Pag posters
• Isabeau opera poster

Jules Emile Massenet
b. 5-12-1842; France
d. 8-13-1912

Jules Massenet, a composer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is best known for his operas.

His mother was his first music teacher; he worked as a timpanist (a musician who plays the “kettle drum”) to support later study.

• Massenet opera posters