When many people think of Gustav Mahler, they have an image of the stern, humorless, gray, self-conciously profound composer (on the other hand, Tom Lerher fans may remember him mostly as the first husband of Alma Malher Gropius Kokoschka Werfel), who wrote such epic works as Symphony For 1,000 and Das Lied Von der Erde. However, Mahler was not entirely humorless; the main theme of the third movement of his first symphony is based on Three Blind Mice.
