Varieties of Musical Irony
From Mozart to Mahler Michael Cherlin Irony, one of the most basic, pervasive, and variegated of rhetorical tropes, is as fundamental to musical thought as it is to poetry, prose, and spoken language. In this wide-ranging study of musical irony, Michael Cherlin draws upon the rich history of irony as developed by rhetoricians, philosophers, literary […]
Mahler im Gespräch
Michael Gielen Vielschichtiger Blick auf Mahlers zehn Sinfonien. Der Dirigent Michael Gielen erläutert im Gespräch mit Paul Fiebig sein Bild des Komponisten Mahler. Dabei stellt er Mahlers Sinfonien, ihre Form, Struktur, Zusammenhänge und ihren musikalischen Gehalt anschaulich dar. Durch Gielens jahrelange Auseinandersetzung mit Mahler entsteht eine neue Sichtweise auf den Komponisten. Ein Buch für alle […]
Mahler Strauss Correspondence
Herta Blaukopf Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss came to know one another as young conductors in Leipzig in 1887. From then until Mahler’s death in 1911 the year of the first performance of Der Rosenkavalier they kept in touch. Mahler himself described their relationship as that of two miners tunneling from opposite directions with […]
A Conductor’s Guide to Symphonies I, II, and III
Michael J Esselstrom. This volume is intended to clarify the formidable task of learning and conducting a Mahler symphony for the first time. Each of the three chapters addressing the Symphony No. 1 in D major, the Symphony No. 2 in C minor the -Resurrection- , and Symphony No. 3 in D minor is arranged […]
Seeing Mahler Music and the Language of Antisemitism in Fin de Siècle Vienna
K.M. Knittel No one doubts that Gustav Mahler’s tenure at the Vienna Court Opera from 1897 1907 was made extremely unpleasant by the antisemitic press. The great biographer, Henry Louis de La Grange, acknowledges that ‘it must be said that antisemitism was a permanent feature of Viennese life’. Unfortunately, the focus on blatant references to […]
Many Variations of Mahler Measures
A Lasting Symphony Francois Brunault The Mahler measure is a fascinating notion and an exciting topic in contemporary mathematics, interconnecting with subjects as diverse as number theory, analysis, arithmetic geometry, special functions, and random walks. This friendly and concise introduction to the Mahler measure is a valuable resource for both graduate courses and self-study. It […]
Aaron Copland and the American Legacy of Gustav Mahler
Matthew Mugmon The iconic American composer Aaron Copland is often credited with creating an unmistakably American musical style, a style free from the powerful sway of the European classics that long dominated the art-music scene in the United States. Yet Copland was strongly attracted to the music of the late-romantic Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, whose […]
The Mahler Album
Gilbert Kaplan The Mahler Album is the definitive collection of all known photographs of the legendary composer and conductor Gustav Mahler. Selected and edited by Gilbert Kaplan, a renowned authority on Mahler, the images are enhanced by photographs of Mahler’s family, his homes, and the opera houses in which he worked and by a […]
Why Mahler?
How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators, has been wrestling obsessively with Mahler for half his life. Following Mahler’s every footstep from birthplace to grave, scrutinizing his manuscripts, talking to those who knew him, Lebrecht constructs a compelling new portrait of Mahler […]
Manon’s World
A Hauntology of a Daughter in the Triangle of Alma Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel James Reidel Not just a narrative biography, Manon’s World is also a medical history of polio that killed Manon and a personal cultural history of the aspirations projected on her and seen as lost by such keen observers as […]