Schoenberg’s Correspondence With Alma Mahler
Elizabeth L- Keathley & Marilyn L. McCoy A fresh perspective on two well-known personalities, Schoenberg’s Correspondence with Alma Mahler documents a modern music friendship. This volume is the first English-language edition of the complete extant correspondence in new English translations from the original German, many from new transcriptions of handwritten originals, and it is the […]
Mahler Remembered
Norman Lebrecht Gustav Mahler is the most influential symphonist of the twentieth century. In this pioneering study, Norman Lebrecht reveals the man and musician through the words of his contemporaries. Using many previously unpublished documents, he constructs a profile of Mahler even more complex and compelling than that familiar from his letters and the often unreliable […]
Gustav and Alma Mahler
A Research and Information Guide Susan M. Filler This revised edition of Garland’s 1989 publication updates the core bibliography on Gustave Mahler, as well as his spouse and fellow composer Alma Mahler, by incorporating new research gathered over the past dozen years on his life and professional works. Gustav Mahler, the renowned conductor, and composer […]
Mahlers Forgotten Conductor
Heinz Unger and his Search for Jewish Meaning Hernan Tesler-Mabé This microhistorical engagement explores how the strands of German Jewish identity converge and were negotiated by a musician who spent the majority of his life trying to grasp who he was. Critical to this understanding was Gustav Mahler’s music; music that Unger endowed with exceptional […]
Recollections of Gustav Mahler
Natalie Bauer-Lechner First published in English in 1980, this important early memoir of Gustav Mahler is by Natalie Bauer-Lechner, a viola player and close and devoted friend of Mahler until his marriage to Alma Schindler in 1902. She visited him in Hamburg and frequented his circle in Vienna, also accompanying him and his family on […]
Rethinking Mahler
Jeremy Barham As one of the most popular classical composers in the performance repertoire of professional and amateur orchestras and choirs across the world, Gustav Mahler continues to generate significant interest, and the global appetite for his music, and for discussions of it, remains large.
Gustav Mahler and Guido Adler
Edward R. Reilly In this book, Edward Reilly provides the essential documents connected with the friendship between the eminent Viennese music-historian Guido Adler and the composer Gustav Mahler. The nature and extent of that friendship have been the source of a number of questions for some years. Although Adler was the author of one of […]
On Mahler and Britten
Philip Reed In this Festschrift for Donald Mitchell, the foremost authority on the life and works of Gustav Mahler and Benjamin Britten, distinguished composers, scholars, colleagues, and friends from around the world have written on aspects of these two composers closest to Mitchell’s heart, producing a volume which not only reflects some of the latest […]
Perspectives on Gustav Mahler
Alfred Mathis-Rosenzweig Gustav Mahler’s music continues to enjoy global prominence, both in live or recorded performance and within broader ranges of critical perception and cultural sensibility. In recognition of such a profile, this volume brings together a unique collection of essays exploring the diverse methods and topics characteristic of recent advances in Mahler scholarship. The […]
Alma Mahler: Muse to Genius
Karen Monson The most beautiful girl in Vienna, she married Gustav Mahler, the composer, and conductor who held the most powerful position in the world of music in 1902, when she was twenty-two. After Mahler’s death, she married Walter Gropius and stayed his wife throughout the years when he was founding the Bauhaus and revolutionizing […]