The Evangelical Universalist Forum

Mahler/Klopstock "The Resurrection"

Wonderful lyrics from Mahler’s amazing 2nd symphony, “The Resurrection”. The first lyric (in the fourth movement) is from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, an early 19th century collection of folk poetry:

It gets even better in the 5th movement. Mahler used the first 8 lines of Klopstock’s poem Die Auferstehung, leaving out the final 4 lines and writing the rest himself.