Mahler's Third at Auditorio Nacional de Música

A programme devoted to Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony, a work the Austrian composer of Bohemian origin worked on between 1893 and 1896 and which was premiered in 1902 in Krefeld.

Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony, composed between 1893 and 1896, is one of the most monumental works in the symphonic repertoire. It consists of six movements and was premiered in 1902 in Krefeld. Mahler, born in 1860 in Bohemia, was also a conductor, and his output is characterised by the scale of its orchestral forces.

The score calls for a large orchestra, a contralto voice in the fourth movement, which sets a text by Nietzsche, and women's and children's choirs in the fifth. The sixth movement is an adagio of slow, hushed character.

The concert takes place at the Auditorio Nacional de Música, a concert and performance venue in Madrid located on calle del Príncipe de Vergara, which hosts classical music programmes such as this one.