Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Composers: The Man Who Speaks To a High-Strung Generation
After the première of Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony at the 1902 Krefeld Festival in Germany, one reviewer concluded that "the composer should be shot." The first Vienna performance of Mahler's Fourth drove the audience to such fury that fistfights broke out all over the concert hall. Conductor Hans von Bülow refused to perform Mahler's works because they were "much too strange." In the face of such hostility, Mahler remained stoic. "My time will come," he predicted.
Today, 56 years after his death, it has. His nine symphonies and the unfinished Tenth, several...
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