1907年,奥地利作曲家玛勒(1860-1911)横遭王公贵族们的攻击,毅然辞去维也纳皇家歌剧院的职务,次年,玛勒来到阿尔卑斯山下的一个村庄。他读了随身携带的德国斯汉·贝特格翻译的中国古诗集《中国之笛》后,李白等中国诗人的悲壮情怀和瑰丽诗章激起了他的强烈共鸣。他从诗集中选取了七首为歌词,谱写了《大地之歌》 In 1907, the Austrian composer Mare (1860-1911) was attacked by kings and nobility and resigned from the Royal Opera House in Vienna. The following year, Muller came to a village in the Alps. After reading the Chinese ancient poem “Flute of China”, which was carried by Germany’s Traian Behringer in Germany, the tragic feelings and magnificent poems of the Chinese poets like Li Bai aroused his strong resonance. He selected seven poems from the poem for the lyrics, wrote a “song of the earth”