Gabriel Fauré and Gustav Mahler were exact contemporaries, each feeling and responding to some of the same cultural and musical trends of fin-de-siecle Europe. Yet in many ways they were polar opposites and existed in two totally different worlds. I…

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Post-tonal 

The long era of common practice tonality weakened in the last half of the 19th century and (with a few exceptions) died a natural death around the year 1900. It was not the result of a single composer…