100 years after his death, composer Gustav Mahler is more popular than ever.
The Bohemian composer died on 18 May, 1911. Afterwards, his work was generally seen as difficult and with limited appeal.
Now a century on, Deutsche Welle reports he is one of the most recorded and performed of all classical composers.
Festivals and commemorative performances are being held across Europe.
The Vienna State Opera - where Mahler was chief conductor from 1897-1907 - is holding a special memorial performance of his final completed symphony, the Ninth.
A complete International Mahler Festival has been organized in Leipzig and a whole month of festivities are planned in Jihlava, the central Czech town where Mahler grew up.
An entire series of concerts will be dedicated to Mahler at the annual Salzburg Festival. They include performances of Das klagende Lied with the Vienna Philharmonic.
Though Mahler is known today primarily for his composition, Deutsche Welle reports the majority of his musical career was spent conducting a range of orchestras throughout Europe and even the United States.
Born in 1860, he began his career as Kapellmeister in Upper Austria in 1880 and worked for brief stints in Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Kassel and Leipzig in Germany and then Prague and Budapest, before moving to Hamburg in 1891.
He was appointed director of the Vienna State Opera in 1897, where he remained until 1907.
In 1908, he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where he also conducted the New York Philharmonic for the first time a year later.