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Which prizes did Gustav Mahler win at the Vienna Conservatory?
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Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler.
During his time as a student at the Vienna Conservatory, Gustav Mahler won prizes for both piano and composition.1
While he successfully earned these awards and graduated with a diploma, he later failed to win the Conservatory's Beethoven Prize for his first significant work, the cantata Das klagende Lied.1