On The Death Motif In Western Music From Mahler's Symphony Composing

This article deads with the Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler's biography in the turn of the 19^th and 20^th century. The outlook on life origin, and in music work the death image content analysis as the breakthrough point, the exploration "the death" the prototype writes in the western music art the origin, the connotation historical vicissitude, its each kind of artistic performance ,as well as it in west.As well as it in Western art history important position. Finally the conclusion in the Western nationality's thinking mode, the esthetic idea and so on knew, in order to Western music culture, esthetic psychological deeper level assurance.