What is Gustav Mahler's position in the history of classical music?
To sum up, he was a very great composer of symphonies in the late 19 and early twentieth Century. He has made outstanding contributions to the transition of romantic music to modern music in the twentieth Century, and has played an important role in the history of music.
Mahler is a representative of the late romanticism. His masterpiece is mainly composed of 9 symphonies (the Tenth Symphony is only written in one movement and died). In the style, his symphony structure is very complex, the idea is huge, the harmony is thick, the emotion change is intense, every capital is very long, sounds laborious. His idea is to do a lot of innovation, bold attempt to break the rules, to inspire a lot of people later, after he has many composers style more and more bold, more and more unconventional, even to the twentieth Century avant-garde music, and his relationship with inspiration.
This problem is complicated, and there are many, you can write papers. I don't understand much, but only briefly.
