Gilbert Kaplan was an American conductor whose late-blooming musical career was almost entirely devoted to performances of
Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in C minor, "Resurrection." A businessman by profession, he was the founder and publisher of the magazine Institutional Investor, which he edited until 1993. He also established the Kaplan Foundation, which is involved in research for a critical edition of
Mahler's Second Symphony.
Kaplan made his first appearance as a conductor in 1982. His performances of the Second yielded recordings with the
London Symphony Orchestra and the
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as appearances with the
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the
New York Philharmonic. With
Rob Mathes, he arranged the Second Symphony for small orchestra, calling for approximately half the forces
Mahler required, and this reduced version was recorded by
Kaplan with the
Vienna Chamber Orchestra on Avie.