Mahler’s Songs on the Death of Children
Gustav Mahler. (Photo: Moritz Nähr/Wikipedia)
One week after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary school, The World’s Alex Gallafent looks at the structures of grief and—in particular—Gustav Mahler’s song cycle, Kindertotenlieder.
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