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 […]
Mahler: Ich bin der welt abhanden gekommen
Luca S. Cristini Gustav Mahler – Austrian composer and conductor born in Kaliste in Bohemia, in 1860, and died in Vienna in 1911. Sensitive interpreter of a world in crisis, Mahler brought the romantic language to a new phase of development, acting as a forerunner in the development of the dodecaphony by his protégés Berg […]
Gustav Mahler’s Mental World: A Systematic Representation
Constantin Floros With his extensive three-volume investigation, the author has newly drawn the image of Gustav Mahler for our time. Should Mahler’s symphonies really be categorized as absolute music? Little-known manuscript sources contain significant hints to the contrary: programmatic titles and catchwords or phrases, mottos, literary allusions, associations, sighs, exclamations. Mahler fully understood his […]
Gustav Mahler’s Symphonic Landscapes
Thomas Peattie The relationship between Gustav Mahler’s career as a conductor and his symphonic writing has remained largely unexplored territory with respect to his provocative re-invention of the Austro-German symphony at the turn of the twentieth century. This study offers a new account of these works by allowing Mahler’s decisive contribution to the genre to […]
Mahler: A Biography
Jonathan Carr Although Gustav Mahler is seen today as one of the groundbreaking composers of the modern era, he remains widely misunderstood both as a man and musician. In Mahler, Jonathan Carr reexamines Mahler’s life and work through the circumstances leading to his death in 1911.
Mahler: His Life, Work and World
Kurt Blaukopf and Herta Blaukopf Provides a look at the composer and his philosophy, purpose, and desires. Gustav Mahler was one of the greatest conductors and composers of his time, acclaimed throughout Europe and America for his full-blooded interpretations of a repertoire that ranged from Mozart and Beethoven to Wagner and Strauss, and for his […]
Mahler
Henry-Louis de La Grange The first volume of De La Grange’s massive four-volume biography of the composer Gustav Mahler, covering the years 1860-1902. This early entry into Henry-Louis de La Grange’s series of biographical books on Gustav Mahler provides a microscopic look into the life of the conductor/composer. It foreshadows the even more finely detailed […]
Gustav Mahler, Vol. 3: Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion, 1904-1907
Henry-Louis de La Grange When the second volume of de La Grange’s monumental study of Mahler appeared, it was hailed in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and many other publications as an indispensable portrait of the great composer. Here at last is the third volume of this magisterial work.
Gustav Mahler: Letters to his Wife
Henry-Louis de La Grange Gustav Mahler: Letters to his Wife is undoubtedly the best way to understand Mahler as a man and as a composer: in his own words, intimately detailing his inner world to his wife, Alma.
Gustav Mahler and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra Tour America
Mary H. Wagner In 1909, when the troubled New York Philharmonic Orchestra needed a leader to rejuvenate and reshape it, composer and conductor Gustav Mahler accepted the challenge. By instituting regular rehearsals, developing a season with forty-six concerts tripling the previous number, and taking the orchestra on tour, Mahler spent the final two years of […]