lecture 1. Introduction and childhood -- lecture 2. Mahler the conductor -- lecture 3. Early songs and symphony No. 1 -- lecture 4. The Wunderhorn symphonies -- lecture 5. Alma and Vienna -- lecture 6. Family life and symphony No. 5 -- lecture 7. Symphony No. 6, 1907, and Das Lied von der Erde -- lecture 8. Das Lied, Final symphonies, and the end.