Mahler Studies
Stephen E. Hefling Mahler Studies comprises ten innovative essays by leading experts on topics spanning the range of current Mahler research, including biographical, psychoanalytical, source-critical, and theoretical approaches to the composer who, with astonishing foresight, repeatedly claimed that my time will come. Highlights include previously inaccessible documents, sketches, and family letters, an insightful overview of […]
The Eighth Mahler and the World in 1910
Stephen Johnson September 12, 1910. The world premiere of Gustav Mahler’s Eighth Symphony and the artistic breakthrough for which the composer had yearned all his life. Munich’s new Musik Festhalle was filled to capacity on two successive evenings for the performances, which were received with rapturous applause. Representatives of many European royal houses were in […]
Mahler’s Seventh Symphony
Anna Stoll Knecht Considering each movement of the symphony through a double perspective, genetic and analytic, Stoll Knecht demonstrates how sketch studies and analytical approaches can interact with each other. Mahler’s Seventh Symphony exposes new facets of Mahler’s musical humor and leads us to rethink much-debated issues concerning the composer’s cultural identity, revealing the Seventh’s […]
The Artists Wife A Novel
Max Phillips An elegant reimagining of the life of Alma Mahler, the lovely, aristocratic fin de siècle composer who abandoned her own art to become the inspiration and collector of geniuses.
Unraveling the Mahler Enigma
A Lost Insight Franz Loschnigg Something like a work of investigative reporting, this is an inquiry into the dynamic of artist and culture: Mahler embedded in his culture, deconstructing notions of his childhood, with marvelous stories of ordinary life in imperial Vienna, a surprising critique of the Conservatory’s composition training, and his subsequent breaking free […]
The Total Work of Art
Mahler’s Eighth Symphony in Context Karl Friedrich Abel Book in German Mahler’s Eighth Symphony in Context: Band 52
To Live for You! To Die for You!
John Searight The Life of Gustav Mahler John Searight in Association with the Gustav Mahler Society of the United Kingdom.
Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahlers Ninth Symphony
Lewis Thomas Profoundly and powerfully, Thomas questions the folly of nuclear weaponry, showing that the brainpower and money spent on this endeavor are needed much more urgently for the basic science we have abandoned and that even medicine’s most advanced procedures would be useless or insufficient in the face of the smallest nuclear detonation. And […]
Mahler A Musical Physiognomy
Theodor W. Adorno Theodor W. Adorno goes beyond conventional thematic analysis to gain a more complete understanding of Mahler’s music through his character, his social and philosophical background, and his moment in musical history. Adorno examines the composer’s works as a continuous and unified development that began with his childhood response to the marches and […]
The Life of Mahler
Peter Franklin As a leading European conductor and the composer of enormous and controversial symphonies, Gustav Mahler inspired mythologizers in his own lifetime. Some of them were personal friends, concerned with countering biased criticism of him in which German nationalist, hidebound traditionalist or anti-Semitic elements were often mixed. In this new biography, Peter Franklin confronts […]