Gustav Mahler
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 1:24 am
Is this a common name in Sweden? The choice of the character's name was intentional I think. The Czech conducter-composer wrote a set of songs titled Kindertotenlieder or "Songs on the death of children."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindertotenlieder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindertotenlieder