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Gustav Mahler
Bruno Walter Conductor, composer, and writer Bruno Walter (1876–1962) worked closely with Gustav Mahler as the composer’s assistant and protégé. His revealing recollections of Mahler were written in 1936, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the composer’s death. Walter first encountered Mahler more than 40 years earlier, when he served as the composer’s assistant conductor in […]
Gustav Mahler: Songs and Symphonies of Life and Death (Vol 3)
Donald Mitchell A monument in Mahler studies, this volume concentrates on the composer’s vocal music and, in particular, on some of his most famous, most original, and best-loved compositions: the late Rueckert orchestral songs and Kindertotenlieder; Das Lied von der Erde, one of the composer’s supreme masterpieces, and the vast Eighth Symphony. Much new ground […]
Gustav Mahler: The Wunderhorn Years (Vol 2)
Donald Mitchell A work of painstaking and imaginative scholarship presented in eminently readable language. MUSICAL QUARTERLY Mitchell has amassed and processed an imposing amount of material, most of it new… It includes a section on Mahler and Freud, discusses Bach’s influence on Mahler, and reproduces contemporary criticism. Invaluable for Mahler scholars and lovers. Donald Mitchell’s […]
Gustav Mahler: The Early Years (Vol 1)
Donald Mitchell Available again for a new generation of Mahlerians, Donald Mitchell’s famous study of the composer’s early life and music was greeted as a major advance on its first appearance in 1958. Revised and updated in the early 1980s, this paperback edition includes a new introduction by the author to bring this classic work […]
Gustav Mahler
Jens Malte Fischer A best-seller when first published in Germany in 2003, Jens Malte Fischer’s Gustav Mahler has been lauded by scholars as a landmark work. He draws on important primary resources—some unavailable to previous biographers—and sets in narrative context the extensive correspondence between Mahler and his wife, Alma; Alma Mahler’s diaries; and the memoirs […]