''Lieder und Gesänge'' is a collection of fourteen songs with piano accompaniment by

Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler (; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism ...

. The title of the collection is sometimes given with the addendum aus der Jugendzeit (''from the early days''), but this addendum is not by Mahler. It is not even clear whether the subtitle refers to the songs being early works of Gustav Mahler (yet Mahler was aged 20 when he composed the earliest of the songs, not an adolescent), or whether the songs are meant to resemble memories of someone's younger days. The title might also simply refer to the source of the major part of the lyrics,

Des Knaben Wunderhorn ''Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Alte deutsche Lieder'' (German language, German; "The boy's magic horn: old German songs") is a collection of German folk poems and songs edited by Ludwig Achim von Arnim, Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano, and publi ...

(''The Youth's Magic Horn''). The songs were composed from 1880 to 1889 and published in three booklets in 1892. * Vol. 1 (composed 1880/81) # Frühlingsmorgen - ''Spring morning'' ( Richard Leander) # Erinnerung - ''Memory'' (Richard Leander) # Hans und Grete - ''Hans and Grethe'' (Gustav Mahler) # ''Serenade'' aus ''Don Juan'' - ''Serenade'' (

Tirso de Molina Gabriel Téllez ( 24 March 1583 20 February 1648), better known as Tirso de Molina, was a Spanish Baroque dramatist, poet and Roman Catholic monk. He is primarily known for writing ''The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest'', the play from ...

) # ''Phantasie'' aus ''Don Juan'' - ''Imagination'' (Tirso de Molina) * Vol. 2 (composed 1888/89; from:

) # Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen - ''How to make naughty children behave'' # Ich ging mit Lust durch einen grünen Wald - ''I walked with joy'' # Aus! Aus! - ''Out! Out!'' # Starke Einbildungskraft - ''Strong Imagination'' * Vol. 3 (composed 1888/89; from: Des Knaben Wunderhorn) # Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz' - ''On the ramparts at Strasbourg'' # Ablösung im Sommer - ''Changing of the summer relief'' # Scheiden und Meiden - ''Parting is painful'' # Nicht wiedersehen! - ''Never to meet again!'' # Selbstgefühl - ''Self-esteem'' Together with the booklet "Sieben Lieder aus letzter Zeit" (''Seven Songs of Latter Days''), which consists of the five

Rückert-Lieder ' (Songs after Rückert) is a collection of five Lieder for voice and orchestra or piano by Gustav Mahler, based on poems written by Friedrich Rückert. The songs were first published in ''Sieben Lieder aus letzter Zeit'' (''Seven Songs of Latter ...

and two of the Lieder aus "Des Knaben Wunderhorn", published in 1905, they now make up a collection known as ''24 Songs by Mahler'', published by International Music Company, New York, NY. Orchestral versions of a selection of the songs were published by

Luciano Berio Luciano Berio (24 October 1925 – 27 May 2003) was an Italian composer noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition ''Sinfonia'' and his series of virtuosic solo pieces titled ''Sequenza''), and for his pioneering work ...

in 1986 (''Five Early Songs for Male Voice'') and 1987 (''Six Early Songs for Baritone and Orchestra''). Orchestrations of five of the songs were also made by

Colin Matthews Colin Matthews, OBE (born 13 February 1946) is an English composer of contemporary classical music. Noted for his large-scale orchestral compositions, Matthews is also a prolific arranger of other composer's music, including works by Berlioz, ...

and David Matthews in 1964. All 14 songs are now orchestrated and available for performance from Josef Weinberger Limited. The complete cycle was given its first performance by Regine Hangler (soprano) and the Warsaw Philharmonic under the baton of Jacek Kaspczyk at the Philharmonic Hall, Warsaw on 1 October 2016.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lieder und Gesange (Mahler) Compositions by Gustav Mahler Lieder 1889 compositions