Kindertotenlieder | |
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Song cycle by Gustav Mahler | |
English | Songs on the Death of Children |
Text | poems by Friedrich Rückert |
Language | German |
Composed | 1901 | –04
Performed | 29 January 1905 |
Duration | c. 25 minutes |
Movements | five |
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Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children) is a song cycle (1904) for voice and orchestra by Gustav Mahler. The words of the songs are poems by Friedrich Rückert.