Symphony No. 5 is the fifth symphony by Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, completed in 1902. The five-movement work melds late-Romantic orchestration with abrupt contrasts and expanded forms, moving between a dramatic brass-led opening, a sombre funeral march, lyrical slow passages and a triumphant finale, and it marks a key turning point in Mahler's output toward purely instrumental, structurally ambitious symphonies that influenced early 20th-century orchestral writing.
