Key Events of Mahler’s Life

1860: Mahler is born

1875-80: Studies in Vienna

1880: Das Klagende Lied

1880: First conducting job in Bad Hall

1881-82: Conductor in Laibach

1882-83: Conductor in Olmütz

1883-85: Conductor in Kassel

1885-86: Conductor in Prague

1885-86: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

1887-88: Conductor in Leipzig

1888-90: Conductor in Budapest

1888-96: Symphony No. 1

1892: Begins Des knaben Wunderhorn

1888-94: Symphony No. 2

1891-97: Conductor in Hamburg

1897-1907: Conductor in Vienna

1894-96: Symphony No. 3

1899-1901: Symphony No. 4

1901-04: Rückert Lieder

1901-04: Kindertotenlieder

1901-02: Symphony No. 5

1903-04: Symphony No. 6

1904-05: Symphony No. 7

1906-07: Symphony No. 8

1908-09: Das Lied von der Erde

1908-11: Conductor in New York

1909-10: Symphony No. 9

1910: Symphony No. 10 (unfinished) 

1911: Mahler dies