Mark Greeley wrote:
>Well, I know that his Kindertotenlieder are based on poems extracted from
>"the Chinese Flute," a set of poems written earlier.
No, it's Das Lied Von Der Erde that come from The Chinese Flute. KTL are
by Ruckert.
>And since we all know that his entire compositional output is cyclical
Though in the words of Neville Cardus "with each work Mahler sheds a skin."
Tony Duggan, England.
My (developing) Mahler recordings survey is at:
http://www.musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/Mahler/index.html