i'm not sure why i wrote this. i like music?

I am aware that this generation does not think very highly of classical music, and that is quite a shame...because a lot of it is incredible.

I have recently learned to love Mahler's second symphony. The first 4 movements, which take an hour and half to play, are an emotional roller coaster. Mahler is contemplating the meaning of his life and what happens at death. All this time, it seems like so much confusion. Then....oh ooh my...then, comes the fifth movement (which is a half hour long!) which starts with a huge blast of noise that can immediately be identified as judgement day. It builds up to the gates of hell bursting open...but then, a calm realization. some amount of hope is found. and this hope grows and grows until it seems like Mahler decided that you must die in order to live. There is a vocal solo near the end. I love the lyrics.

(translated from German)
Rise again, yes, rise again,
Will you My dust,
After a brief rest!
Immortal life! Immortal life
Will He who called you, give you.
To bloom again were you created!
The Lord of the harvest goes
And gathers in, like sheaves,
Us together, who die.
O believe, my heart, O believe:
Nothing to you is lost!
Yours is, yes yours, is what you desired
Yours, what you have loved
What you have fought for!
O believe,
You were not born for nothing!
Have not for nothing, lived, suffered!
What was created
Must perish,
What perished, rise again!
Cease from trembling!
Prepare yourself to live!
O Pain, You piercer of all things,
From you, I have been wrested!
O Death, You masterer of all things,
Now, are you conquered!
With wings which I have won for myself,
In love’s fierce striving,
I shall soar upwards
To the light which no eye has penetrated!
Its wing that I won is expanded,
and I fly up.

Die shall I in order to live.
Rise again, yes, rise again,
Will you, my heart, in an instant!
That for which you suffered,
To God will it lead you!