Rückert-Lieder

They are:

1. Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder! − Do not look at my songs! (14 June 1901)
2. Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft − I breathed a gentle fragrance (July 1901)
3. Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen − I have become lost to the world (16 August 1901)
4. Um Mitternacht − At midnight (Summer 1901)
5. Liebst du um Schönheit − If You Love for Beauty (August 1902)

Together with the Kindertotenlieder (also on poems by Rückert) the first four songs were premiered on 29 January 1905 in Vienna, with Mahler conducting. The remaining song, Liebst du um Schönheit was not orchestrated by Mahler himself but by Max Puttmann, an employee of the publisher C.F.Kahnt of Leipzig, in 1910.

Together with Revelge and Der Tamboursg’sell (on poems from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, the five songs were later incorporated into Mahler’s Lieder aus "Des Knaben Wunderhorn") they were first published after Mahler's death as Sieben Lieder aus letzter Zeit (Seven Songs of Latter Days). More recently, Universal Edition has published a score consisting only of the five Rückert settings.

External links

• Lyrics
• Chronology and discography (in French)
• 5 Rückert-Lieder (MIDI)