The Mahler Album – Expanded Edition
Gilbert Kaplan The Mahler Album is the definitive collection of all known photographs of the legendary composer and conductor Gustav Mahler. Mahler broke new ground in both composition and conducting, and today his music is more popular than ever. Selected by Gilbert Kaplan, a renowned expert, the beautifully reproduced images are enhanced by photographs of […]
The Mahler Companion
Donald Mitchell & Andrew Nicholson The Mahler Companion consists of a collection of original essays on Mahler written especially for the occasion by Mahler specialists from around the world. It addresses all parts of his life and work symphonies, songs, and song-cycles each of which is discussed individually, his conducting activities, compositional habits, and aesthetic […]
The Mahler Family Letters
Stephen McClatchie Hundreds of the letters that Gustav Mahler addressed to his parents and siblings survive, yet they have remained virtually unknown. Now, for the first time, Mahler scholar Stephen McClatchie presents over 500 of these letters in a clear, lively translation in The Mahler Family Letters. Drawn primarily from the Mahler-Rosé Collection at the […]
The Mahler Symphonies: An Owner’s Manual
David Hurwitz An Owner’s Manual is the first discussion of the ten completed symphonies No. 1-9 plus The Song of the Earth to offer music lovers and record collectors a comprehensive overview of the music itself, what it sounds like, how it is organized, its form, content, and meaning, as it strikes today’s listeners. The […]
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Stephen E. Hefling Since its premiere, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, The Song of the Earth has been widely regarded as his finest masterpiece. It was written in the wake of personal events that shook the foundations of his life in 1907 and, like all his earlier works, it is deeply influenced by the […]
Symphonic Metamorphoses
Subjectivity and Alienation in Mahler’s Re-Cycled Songs Raymond Knapp This revelatory new book takes readers far beyond most existing critical analyses of Mahler’s work, escaping the tiring traps of broad historical survey and formalist plot summary. Symphonic Metamorphoses considers Mahler’s early practice of basing his symphonies on pre-existing songs and elaborates on how this practice […]
The Cambridge Companion to Mahler
Jeremy Barham In the years approaching the centenary of Mahler’s death, this book provides both summation of, and starting point for, an assessment and reassessment of the composer’s output and creative activity. Authored by a collection of leading specialists in Mahler scholarship, its opening chapters place the composer in socio-political and cultural contexts and discuss […]
Alma Mahler Werfel Diaries 1898 1902
Alma Mahler-Werfel The original manuscript of these diaries, which present an eye-witness record of historical events in the worlds of art and music at the turn of the century, lay unread in the library of an American university until Antony Beaumont read it in search of the truth about Mahler-Werfel and Zemlinsky. But he found […]
Malevolent Muse: The Life of Alma Mahler
Oliver Hilmes Of all the colorful figures on the twentieth-century European cultural scene, hardly anyone has provoked more-polarized reactions than Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel (1879-1964). Mistress to a long succession of brilliant men, she married three of the best known: the composer Gustav Mahler, the architect Walter Gropius, and the writer Franz Werfel. Her […]
Passionate Spirit
The Life of Alma Mahler Cate Haste Passionate Spirit restores vibrant humanity to a woman time turned into a caricature, providing an important correction to a history where systemic sexism has long erased women of talent. History has long vilified Alma Mahler. Critics accused her of distracting Gustav Mahler from his work, and her passionate […]