Author : Karen Monson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042565106
Alma Mahler
Karen Monson
Alma Mahler Muse To Genius
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Alma Mahler, Muse to Genius
Karen Monson
Author : Karen Monson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037514275
Alma Mahler, Muse to Genius by Karen Monson Pdf
"Alma Maria Mahler Gropius Werfel (born Alma Maria Schindler; 31 August 1879? 11 December 1964) was a Viennese-born socialite well known in her youth for her beauty and vivacity. She became the wife, successively, of composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, and novelist Franz Werfel, as well as the consort of several other prominent men. Musically active from her teens, she was the composer of at least seventeen songs for voice and piano. In later years her salon became an important feature of the artistic scene, first in Vienna, then in Los Angeles."--Wikipedia.
Malevolent Muse
Oliver Hilmes
Author : Oliver Hilmes
Publisher : Northeastern University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555538453
Malevolent Muse by Oliver Hilmes Pdf
Of all the colorful figures on the twentieth-century European cultural scene, hardly anyone has provoked more polarity than Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel (1879-1964), mistress to a long succession of brilliant men and wife of three of the best known: composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius and writer Franz Werfel. To her admirers Alma was a self-sacrificing socialite who inspired many great artists. Her detractors found her a self-aggrandizing social climber and an alcoholic, bigoted, vengeful harlot - as one contemporary put it, "a cross between a grande dame and a cesspool." So who was she really? When historian Oliver Hilmes discovered a treasure-trove of unpublished material, much of it in Alma's own words, he used it as the basis for his first biography, setting the record straight while evoking the atmosphere of intellectual life in Europe and then in migr communities on both coasts of the United States after the Nazi takeover of their home territories. First published in German in 2004, the book was hailed as a rare combination of meticulously researched scholarship and entertaining writing, making it a runaway bestseller and advancing Oliver Hilmes to his position as a household name in contemporary literature. Alma Mahler was one of the twentieth century's rare originals, worthy of her immortalization in song. Oliver Hilmes has provided us with an even-handed yet tantalizingly detailed account of her life, bringing Alma's singular story to a whole new audience.
Alma Mahler and Her Contemporaries
Susan M. Filler
Author : Susan M. Filler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317397977
Alma Mahler and Her Contemporaries by Susan M. Filler Pdf
This selective annotated bibliography places Alma Mahler with three other female composers of her time, covering the first generation of active female composers in the twentieth century. It uncovers the wealth of resources available on the lives and music of Mahler, Florence Price, Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg, and Maria Teresa Prieto and supports emerging scholarship and inquiry on four women who experienced both entrenched sexual discrimination and political upheaval, which affected their lives and influenced composers of subsequent generations.
Gustav and Alma Mahler
Susan Melanie Filler
Author : Susan Melanie Filler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780415943888
Gustav and Alma Mahler by Susan Melanie Filler Pdf
This revised edition of Garland's 1989 publication updates the core bibliography on Gustave Mahler (as well as his spouse and fellow composer Alma Mahler) by incorporating new research gathered over the past dozen years on his life and professional works. Gustave Mahler, renowned conductor and composer of symphonies and song cycles, is one of the foremost musical figures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His symphonies continue to be widely performed and studied through the twenty-first century. Organized in sections according to subject matter, references are arranged alphabetically by the names of authors or editors. Filler’s research has produced sources for musicologists and students in nineteen languages, offering a resource that expands traditional English-language music scholarship.
Gustav and Alma Mahler
Susan M. Filler
Author : Susan M. Filler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135946692
Gustav and Alma Mahler by Susan M. Filler Pdf
This revised edition of Garland's 1989 publication updates the core bibliography on Gustave Mahler (as well as his spouse and fellow composer Alma Mahler) by incorporating new research gathered over the past dozen years on his life and professional works. Gustave Mahler, renowned conductor and composer of symphonies and song cycles, is one of the foremost musical figures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His symphonies continue to be widely performed and studied through the twenty-first century. Organized in sections according to subject matter, references are arranged alphabetically by the names of authors or editors. Filler’s research has produced sources for musicologists and students in nineteen languages, offering a resource that expands traditional English-language music scholarship.
Schoenberg's Correspondence With Alma Mahler
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199700455
Schoenberg's Correspondence With Alma Mahler by Anonim Pdf
A fresh perspective on two well-known personalities, Schoenberg's Correspondence with Alma Mahler documents a modern music friendship beginning in fin-de-siécle Vienna and ending in 1950s Los Angeles. This volume is the first English-language edition of the complete extant correspondence in new English translations from the original German, many from new transcriptions of handwritten originals, and it is the first English-language book of Schoenberg's correspondence with a female associate. These often quite candid letters afford readers a fascinating glimpse into the personalities, ideologies, institutions, protocols, and aesthetics of early twentieth-century European music culture. Critics, conductors, composers, and visual artists are appraised, kindly or venomously; visual artists and writers also appear. Above all, Alma Mahler (1879-1964) and Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) emerge as intriguing, complex individuals who transcend their conventional representations as, respectively, a femme fatale and a musical radical. For Schoenberg, Alma was a sympathetic confidante, a comrade in their shared battle against musical conservatism, yet also a canny negotiator of Vienna's social circles, a skill that brought Schoenberg into contact with important patrons. Not only did he invite Alma to his premieres, lectures, and art exhibitions, but Schoenberg also sent her scores of his music and drafts of his writings. He revealed to her his plans for his innovative new music society, the Society for Private Music Performances, and his development of a new method of composition with twelve tones. The letters remind us of how crucial the social and personal dimensions of music culture were to the early twentieth-century composers and musicians. Gender, ethnicity, and social class conditioned their opportunities in music---and in life---and their shared experience of fleeing fascism to a new country with a different culture and language resonates with our own epoch.
Alma Mahler, Muse to Genius
Karen Monson
Author : Karen Monson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015070673580
Alma Mahler, Muse to Genius by Karen Monson Pdf
"Alma Maria Mahler Gropius Werfel (born Alma Maria Schindler; 31 August 1879? 11 December 1964) was a Viennese-born socialite well known in her youth for her beauty and vivacity. She became the wife, successively, of composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, and novelist Franz Werfel, as well as the consort of several other prominent men. Musically active from her teens, she was the composer of at least seventeen songs for voice and piano. In later years her salon became an important feature of the artistic scene, first in Vienna, then in Los Angeles."--Wikipedia.
Passionate Spirit
Cate Haste
Author : Cate Haste
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780465096725
Passionate Spirit by Cate Haste Pdf
A new biography of Alma Mahler (1879-1964), revealing a woman determined to wield power in a world that denied her agency History has long vilified Alma Mahler. Critics accused her of distracting Gustav Mahler from his work, and her passionate love affairs shocked her peers. Drawing on Alma's vivid, sensual, and overlooked diaries, biographer Cate Haste recounts the untold and far more sympathetic story of this ambitious and talented woman. Though she dreamed of being the first woman to compose a famous opera, Alma was stifled by traditional social values. Eventually, she put her own dreams aside and wielded power and influence the only way she could, by supporting the art of more famous men. She worked alongside them and gained credit as their muse, commanding their love and demanding their respect. 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.
Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1900DS1960
Laurel Parsons,Brenda Ravenscroft
Author : Laurel Parsons,Brenda Ravenscroft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190236984
Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1900DS1960 by Laurel Parsons,Brenda Ravenscroft Pdf
"This is the second of four volumes in a multi-authored series of analytical essays on music by women composers from Hildegard of Bingen to the twenty-first century. Volume 2 presents detailed studies of compositions written between 1900 and 1960 by Alma Mahler-Werfel, Rebecca Clarke, Ethel Smyth, Ruth Crawford, Florence B. Price, Galina Ustvolskaya, J. M. Beyer, and Peggy Glanville-Hicks. Each chapter opens with a brief biographical sketch of the composer, followed by an in-depth analysis of a single representative composition, occasionally including other works where comparison strengthens the analytical argument. The repertoire explored by the authors includes art song, opera, choral, solo piano, chamber, and orchestral music. To enhance the volume's accessibility to readers who are not professional music theorists or musicologists, a glossary provides explanations of music-theoretical terms used in the book. The collection is designed to challenge and stimulate a wide range of readers. For academics, these thorough analytical studies can open new paths into unexplored research areas in music theory and musicology. Post-secondary instructors may be inspired by the insights offered here to include new works in graduate or upper-level undergraduate courses in early twentieth-century music or women and music. Finally, for performers, conductors, and music broadcasters, these thoughtful analyses can offer enriched understandings of this repertoire and suggest fresh, new programming possibilities to share with listeners-an endeavor of discovery for all those interested in twentieth-century music"--
Ferruccio Busoni As Architect of Sound
Associate Professor of Music History Erinn E Knyt,Erinn E. Knyt
Author : Associate Professor of Music History Erinn E Knyt,Erinn E. Knyt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780197625491
Ferruccio Busoni As Architect of Sound by Associate Professor of Music History Erinn E Knyt,Erinn E. Knyt Pdf
"This book presents a broad view of Busoni's compositional activities as not only connected to musical traditions of the past, especially the music of J.S. Bach and W.A. Mozart, but also as closely aligned with contemporary interest in experimentalism. Developments during the twentieth century included new means of pitch organization, the spatialization of sound, and the expansion of formal structures. Busoni helped pioneer these trends by writing pieces in which sound radiates from different directions, by creating montage formal structures, and by freely using all twelve pitches of the chromatic scale without avoiding consonances. In the process, the book brings Busoni's music into discourse with recent multivalent accounts of modernism in music that move beyond notions of rupture with the past as well as beyond elitist esotericism. In addition, it reveals that many of Busoni's innovations were rooted in interdisciplinary thinking that reconciled the spatial and the temporal in unique manners. While his abstract metaphysical notions of music transcended physical boundaries, the realization of his ideas was informed by an understanding of tangible architectural spaces and styles fostered by the study of buildings and floor plans. In addition, he engaged in a rich exchange of ideas with contemporary architects and artists, such as Henry Van de Velde and members of the Weimar Bauhaus. The book concludes by documenting ways Busoni's spatialized architectural music left a lasting imprint on future generations of composers, artists, and early film pioneers, such as Hans Richter, Heinrich Neugeboren, Wladimir Vogel, Stefan Wolpe, and Edgard Varèse"--
Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia
Mary Zirin,Irina Livezeanu,Christine D. Worobec,June Pachuta Farris
Author : Mary Zirin,Irina Livezeanu,Christine D. Worobec,June Pachuta Farris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2091 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317451976
Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia by Mary Zirin,Irina Livezeanu,Christine D. Worobec,June Pachuta Farris Pdf
This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)" over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes.
The Mahler Family Letters
Stephen McClatchie
Author : Stephen McClatchie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190451059
The Mahler Family Letters by Stephen McClatchie Pdf
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-Rose Collection at the University of Western Ontario, the volume presents a complete, well-rounded view of the family's correspondence. Spanning the mid 1880s through 1910, the letters record the excitement of a young man with a bourgeoning career as a conductor and provide a glimpse into his day-to-day activities rehearsing and conducting operas and concerts in Budapeast and Hamburg, and composing his first symphonies and songs. On the private side, they document his parents' illnesses and deaths and the struggles of his siblings Alois, Justine, Otto, and Emma. The letters also give Mahler's insightful impressions of contemporaries such as Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, and Hans von Bulow, as well as his personal feelings about significant events, such as his first big success--the completion of Carl Maria von Weber's Die drei Pintos in 1889. In the fall of 1894, the character of the letters changes when Justine and Emma come to live with Mahler in Hamburg and then Vienna, removing the need to communicate by letter about quotidian matters. At this point, the letters relay noteworthy events such as Mahler's campaign to be named Director of the Vienna Court Opera, his conducting tours throughout Europe, and his courtship of Alma Schindler. The Mahler Family Letters provides a vital, nuanced source of information about Mahler's life, his personality, and his relationships. McClatchie has generously annotated each letter, contextualizing and clarifying contemporary historical references and Mahler family acquaintances, and created an indispensable resource for all Mahlerists, 19th-century musicologists, and historians of 19th-century Germany and Austria.
Why Mahler?
Norman Lebrecht
Author : Norman Lebrecht
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781400096572
Why Mahler? by Norman Lebrecht Pdf
Why Mahler? Why does his music affect us in the way it does? 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 as a man who lived determinedly outside his own times. Mahler was—along with Picasso, Einstein, Freud, Kafka, and Joyce—a maker of our modern world. Why Mahler? is a book that shows how music can change our lives.
Gustav Mahler
Jens Malte Fischer
Author : Jens Malte Fischer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300134445
Gustav Mahler by Jens Malte Fischer Pdf
Translation of: Gustav Mahler: Der fremde Vertraute.