Gustav Mahler MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Gustav Mahler? Gustav Mahler is an INFJ personality type in MBTI, 4w5 - sp/sx - in Enneagram, RLOEI in Big 5, LII in Socionics.
He seems like an INTJ but the extreme outbursts of emotion he had - not just through his music but the number of times he physically broke down and cried in an outward and intensely emotional way - make me think Fe is present higher up.
Biography
Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian composer and conductor, one of the last of the Romantic era. He mostly restricted his output to symphonies and song cycles. Mahler once remarked that "the symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything." No wonder then that his symphonies work on a larger scale than anything previously conceived: some of them have elaborate philosophical programs, like his Symphony No. 3 which, like Richard Strauss' tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra, is based on Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra. Mahler continually specified larger orchestras and more esoteric instruments; the culmination of this is his Symphony No. 8, which requires a ridiculously large number of musicians: double orchestra, an organist, eight vocal soloists, and three choirs. It is often called the "Symphony of a Thousand." He seems to have been fond of complaining that people did not understand his angst, and his works can sometimes be a little obtuse.
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