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 […]
Reading Mahler
Carl Niekerk Gustav Mahler’s music is more popular than ever, yet few are aware of its roots in German literary and cultural history in general, and in fin-de-siècle Viennese culture in particular. Taking as its point of departure the many references to literature, philosophy, and the visual arts that Mahler uses to illustrate the meaning […]
Mahler’s Fourth Symphony
(Studies In Musical Genesis, Structure, and Interpretation) James L. Zychowicz Following the earlier volumes in the Studies in Musical Genesis and Structure series, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony is a study of origins of one of Mahler’s most popular and accessible works. James Zychowicz examines how the composition evolved from the earliest ideas to the finished score, […]
Mahler’s Sixth Symphony
A Study in Musical Semiotics Robert Samuels (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis) The terms of the structuralist and post-structuralist theory have been widely debated within the field of music analysis in recent years. However, very few analyses have attempted to address the repertoire of large orchestral works of the turn of the century […]
Mahler’s Symphonic Sonatas
Seth Monahan Why would Gustav Mahler 1860-1911, modernist titan and so-called prophet of the New Music, commit himself time and again to the venerable sonata-allegro form of Mozart and Beethoven? How could so gifted a symphonic storyteller be drawn to a framework that many have dismissed as antiquated and dramatically inert? Mahler’s Symphonic Sonatas offers […]
Mahler’s Unknown Letters
Gathers letters written from Mahler to his critics, colleagues, family, and friends, and provides background information concerning each letter
Mahler’s Voices
Expression and Irony in the Songs and Symphonies Julian Johnson A unique study not of Mahler’s works as such but of Mahler’s musical style, Mahler’s Voices brings together a close reading of the renowned composer’s music with wide ranging cultural and historical interpretation. Through a radical self-awareness that links the romantic irony of the late […]
Mahler and Strauss: In Dialogue
Charles Youmans A rare case among history’s great music contemporaries, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) and Richard Strauss (1864-1949) enjoyed a close friendship until Mahler’s death in 1911. Unlike similar musical pairs (Bach and Handel, Haydn and Mozart, Schoenberg and Stravinsky), these two composers may have disagreed on the matters of musical taste and social comportment, but […]
Mahler Discography
Peter Fulop This volume presents for the first time comprehensive information on all known recordings-1,168 of them-of the music of Gustav Mahler. Sections are organized by work, artist, and the recorded label. Moreover, comparative timings are provided for virtually all recordings, including timings for each movement. Mahler’s Discography is an indispensable reference tool for music […]
Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Peter Franklin Mahler’s Third Symphony was conceived as a musical picture of the natural world. This handbook describes the composition of Mahler’s grandiose piece of philosophical program music in the context of the ideas that inspired it and the artistic debates and social conflicts that it reflects. In this original and wide-ranging account, Peter Franklin […]