Das klagende Lied

Das klagende Lied is a cantata by Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, composed between 1878 and 1880. The work is a large-scale choral and orchestral piece in a late-Romantic, programme-music idiom that incorporates Wagnerian harmonic language and folk-inspired material, and it occupies an early position in Mahler's output where he explored narrative drama and expanded orchestral forces that would inform his later symphonies.