what was his genre?
A close and complex interrelationship between song and symphony.
Gustav Mahler
Except for his juvenilia, little of which has survived, Mahler composed only in the media of song and symphony, with a close and complex interrelationship between the two. 
what is referred as symphony no. 8 (mahler)? The Symphony No. 8 in E-flat, is one of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire. who is its composer? Gustav Mahler. when? In the summer of 1906. where was it premiered? Munich. and then performed? Amsterdam, Prague and Vienna. where was the composer first appointed? In a small wooden theatre in the spa town of Bad Hall, south of Linz. what was his work there? Professional music conductor. did he face any tragedy in his life? Loss of his daughter. what happened to her? She fell ill with scarlet fever and diphtheria.
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Gustav Mahler [SEP] Genre
Except for his juvenilia, little of which has survived, Mahler composed only in the media of song and symphony, with a close and complex interrelationship between the two. Donald Mitchell writes that this interaction is the backcloth against which all Mahler's music can be considered. The initial connection between song and symphony occurs with the song-cycle "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen" and the First Symphony. Although this early evidence of cross-fertilisation is important, it is during Mahler's extended "Wunderhorn" phase, in which his Second, Third and Fourth Symphonies were written, that the song and symphony genres are consistently intermingled. Themes from the "Wunderhorn" song "Das himmlische Leben" ("The Heavenly Life"), composed in 1892, became a key element in the Third Symphony completed in 1896; the song itself forms the finale to the Fourth (1900) and its melody is central to the whole composition.