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When Gustav Mahler was six years old, he discovered a piano in his grandmother's attic. He had his first public performance four years later.1)
The Mahlers emigrated from eastern Bohemia and settled in the German town of Kalit.2)
In 1878, Mahler graduated from the Vienna Conservatory. Unfortunately, few of his student compositions have survived, so it's uncertain what he would have sounded like at the time.3)