[cloudmountain]

Mahler is a "B" composer, very good, but NO "A" composer like Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mendlesohn, Chopin, Verdi, Rachmaninoff, Wagner, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_classical_music_composers_by_era

Check it out. Mahler didn't make any of those lists.
There is ONE symphony conductor who plays Mahler ALL the time. His reason for doing so make no sense. That's all I'll say.

[WhiskeyX]

“https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_classical_music_composers_by_era";

“Check it out. Mahler didn’t make any of those lists.”

He is listed as a Romantic just after Puccini in the Overview list.