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Mahler’s Best, From Klemperer to Dudamel: Norman Lebrecht
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There’s going to be a glut of Gustav Mahler in the year ahead.
Starting today with the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth in an Austrian-Czech village on July 7, 1860, the commemorations will roll on beyond the centenary of his death on May 18, 2011. Mahler has become, in recent decades, the most popular symphonist in the concert repertoire.