Gustav Mahler:
(Kalischt, 7 July 1860 – Vienna, 18 May 1911) was a Bohemian-born and raised Austrian composer and conductor of Jewish descent.
Mahler was considered one of the most important conductors of his time. He was active at the opera houses of Budapest and Hamburg, among others, and at the court opera in Vienna. He was also conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic. As a composer, he is mainly seen as one of the last representatives of the great symphonic tradition and as the one who linked late Romanticism with the modern period of classical music, which took shape especially in the Second Viennese School.
Tradition is preserving the fire and not worshiping the ashes.
