Mahler Re Composed

Author : George M. Cummins III
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781450289795

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Mahler Re-Composed by George M. Cummins III Pdf

In 2010, the composer Gustav Mahler celebrates his one hundred fiftieth birthday. In Mahler Re-Composed, linguist George Cummins shares a collection of six interrelated essays that provide a fresh perspective on difficult questions familiar to Mahler lovers. Cummins, a teacher of Russian and Czech at Tulane University, brings a uniquely Czech perspective to the study of Mahlers personality and work. In his careful examination of the composers life and work, Cummins begins with an introduction that provides a glimpse into Mahler the Czech and continues with an account of Mahlers conversion from Judaism to Catholicism while making his way to the Vienna Hofoper directorship. Cummins also takes a skeptical look at the legend of Mahler as an impotent, humorless neurotic and recreates the friendship between Strauss and Mahlertwo of the greatest musicians of the early twentieth century.

Author : Burnett James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Composers
ISBN : UOM:39015009687602

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The Music of Gustav Mahler by Burnett James Pdf

Author : Jens Malte Fischer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300134445

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Gustav Mahler by Jens Malte Fischer Pdf

Translation of: Gustav Mahler: Der fremde Vertraute.

Author : Donald Mitchell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520055780

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Gustav Mahler, Songs and Symphonies of Life and Death by Donald Mitchell Pdf

The third volume of Mitchell's epic account of the composer and his works concentrates on the vocal music and, in particular, on some of his most famous, original, and best loved compositions.

Author : Donald Mitchell
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843830027

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Gustav Mahler by Donald Mitchell Pdf

Without an understanding of the conflicts of Mahler's youth one cannot truly appreciate the impulses behind the major symphonies and song cycles of his later years. Available again for a new generation of Mahlerians, Donald Mitchell's famous study of the composer's early life and music was greeted as a major advance on its first appearance in 1958. Revised and updated in the early 1980s, thispaperback edition includes a new introduction by the author to bring this classic work once again to the forefront of Mahler studies. From his birth in Bohemia, then part of the mighty Austro-Hungarian empire, to a surveyof his early works, many now lost, Gustav Mahler: The Early Years forms an indispensable prelude to the period of the great compositions. The conflicts which came to mark Mahler's music and personality had their beginningsin his childhood and youth. Without understanding the territorial, social and familial conflicts of this time one cannot truly appreciate the impulses behind the major symphonies and song cycles of his later years. DONALD MITCHELL was born in 1925. Two composers have been central to his writings on music, Gustav Mahler and Benjamin Britten. His three studies of Mahler, The Early Years (1958), The Wunderhorn Years (1975), and Songs and Symphonies of Life and Death (1985), are among the enduring monuments of postwar Mahler literature. He was founder Professor of Music at the University of Sussex (1971-76), was visiting Professor atKing's College, London, and is currently a visiting Professor at the Universities of Sussex and York.

Author : Michael Kennedy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X006107291

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Mahler by Michael Kennedy Pdf

Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate its readers with detailed insight into the lives and work of music's geniuses. Unlike other composer biographies that focus narrowly on the music, this series explores the personal history of each composer and the social context surrounding the music. In a precise, engaging, and authoritative manner, each volume combines a vivid portrait of the master musicians' inspirations, influences, life experiences, even their weaknesses, with an accessible discussion of their work--all in roughly 300 pages. Further, each volume offers superb reference material, including a detailed life-and-times chronology, a complete list of works, a glossary highlighting the important people in the composer's life, and a select bibliography. Under the supervision of music expert and series general editor Stanley Sadie , Master Musicians will certainly proceed to delight music scholars, serious musicians, and all music lovers for another hundred years. In this revised edition, Michael Kennedy has drawn on new documentary evidence which has enabled him to give a much fuller account of Mahler's childhood and youth, and of his years as an opera conductor in Cassel, Prague, Leipzig, Budapest, Hamburg, and Vienna. All Mahler's works are discussed, and the latest research on the Eighth Symphony and Das Lied von der Erde has been incorporated.

Author : Philip Barford
Publisher : London : British Broadcasting Corporation
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111193061

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Mahler Symphonies and Songs by Philip Barford Pdf

Author : Jeremy Barham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351554411

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Perspectives on Gustav Mahler by Jeremy Barham Pdf

Gustav Mahler's music continues to enjoy global prominence, both in live or recorded performance and within broader ranges of critical perception and cultural sensibility. In recognition of such a profile, this volume brings together a unique collection of essays exploring the diverse methods and topics characteristic of recent advances in Mahler scholarship. The book's international group of contributors is actively involved not only in bringing fresh approaches to Mahler research in areas such as analysis, sketch studies and reception history, but also in examining hitherto neglected issues of cultural and biographical interpretation, performance practice and compositional aesthetic, thereby illustrating the developing vitality and scope of this field. Engaging with its subject from reconstructive, documentary, theoretical, analytical, discursive and interpretative viewpoints, this volume provides a wide spectrum of contexts in which continuing debate about Mahler's life and works can flourish. Its varied themes and strategies nevertheless collectively recognize and negotiate the shifting space both between the composer's life and his artistic creativity, and between the musical results of that creativity and the critical-analytical process. The essays in this book accordingly fill certain gaps in the scholarly understanding of the composer, and re-orientate Mahler studies towards some of the central concerns of contemporary musicological thinking.

Author : Bruno Walter,Ernst Krenek
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1970-04-21
Category : Composers
ISBN : UOM:39076006080167

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Gustav Mahler by Bruno Walter,Ernst Krenek Pdf

Author : Alfred Rosenzweig
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754653536

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Gustav Mahler by Alfred Rosenzweig Pdf

Alfred Mathis-Rosenzweig (1897-1948), a Viennese musicologist and critic, embarked on producing a large-scale study of Mahler in 1933, but left an unfinished manuscript at the time of his death. Here Jeremy Barham prepares the first published edition of this important work, his annotations and commentary adding invaluable material to the translation. Biographical material is used as a loose framework and platform for Mathis-Rosenzweig's profound examination of the environment within which Mahler's earlier music was embedded--an environment in which Wagner, Bruckner and Wolf feature prominently, and in which Mahler's music is viewed from the wider perspective of nineteenth-century German cultural domination and the subsequent rise of political extremism in the form of Hitlerite fascism.

Author : Charles Youmans
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253021663

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Mahler and Strauss by Charles Youmans Pdf

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 deeply respected one another's artistic talents, freely exchanging advice from the earliest days of professional apprenticeship through the security and aggravations of artistic fame. Using a wealth of documentary material, this book reconstructs the 24-year relationship between Mahler and Strauss through collage—"a meaning that arises from fragments," to borrow Adorno's characterization of Mahler's Sixth Symphony. Fourteen different topics, all of central importance to the life and work of the two composers, provide distinct vantage points from which to view both the professional and personal relationships. Some address musical concerns: Wagnerism, program music, intertextuality, and the craft of conducting. Others treat the connection of music to related disciplines (philosophy, literature), or to matters relevant to artists in general (autobiography, irony). And the most intimate dimensions of life—childhood, marriage, personal character—are the most extensively and colorfully documented, offering an abundance of comparative material. This integrated look at Mahler and Strauss discloses provocative revelations about the two greatest western composers at the turn of the 20th century.

Author : Dika Newlin
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473387300

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Bruckner - Mahler - Schoenberg by Dika Newlin Pdf

The idea of this book originally came to me during my years of study with Arnold Schoenberg in Los Angeles. At that time I was first introduced to the most “radical” works of Schoenberg—works virtually unknown in this country so far as public performances are concerned. I felt the need of a historical background which would explain the origins of the new style.

Author : Nicolás Puyané
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781837650477

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Liszt Recomposed by Nicolás Puyané Pdf

Explores Liszt's compositional processes and methods of revision as the product of the composer's interactions with a large variety of social, cultural, personal and political forces. Franz Liszt (1811-86) is mostly known for his virtuosic piano works, but his compositional achievements in the genre of song have so far been neglected. Many of Liszt's Lieder exist in multiple versions, sometimes radically altered, and many with equal claims to 'authenticity'. This has sometimes been viewed as a barrier to performance and a hindrance to scholarly scrutiny. Nicolás Puyané now redresses this imbalance and draws attention to this rich and varied corpus of works. Liszt's songs contain a myriad of intertextual links, not just with the songs of other composers, but also with Liszt's own works in other genres and his own revisions. By focusing on the multi-version songs, the book uncovers how these intertextual relationships have evolved over time. Introducing the concept of "textual fluidity", the book explores Liszt's compositional processes and methods of revision, interpreting the work as being the product of the composer's interactions with a large variety of social, cultural, personal and political forces: for instance, the contemporaneous reception of Liszt's early Lieder, or the change in Liszt's performing and compositional environments from his virtuoso to his Weimar years. The book then offers close readings of selected songs, including the Goethe and Schiller Lieder, by applying the concept of textual fluidity. Its findings will impact the way in which we see Urtext editions, arguing instead for an online fluid-text edition as an ideal resource with which to study Liszt's multi-version compositions.

Author : Natalie Bauer-Lechner
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571305216

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Recollections of Gustav Mahler by Natalie Bauer-Lechner Pdf

First published in English in 1980, this important early memoir of Gustav Mahler is by Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921), a viola player and close and devoted friend of Mahler until his marriage to Alma Schindler in 1902. She visited him in Hamburg and frequented his circle in Vienna, also accompanying him and his family on a number of the summer vacations during which the Second, Third and Fourth Symphonies came into being, together with many of the Wunderhorn songs. Compiled from Bauer-Lechner's private journal, these Recollections are a vital, invaluable record of Mahler's personal, professional and creative life during the last decade of the nineteenth century. A large part of the book recounts, at first hand, conversations with Mahler concerning his works and his ideas about performance (both in the opera-house and on the concert platform.)

Author : Donald Mitchell
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843830035

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Gustav Mahler by Donald Mitchell Pdf

The author's second book on the life and work of Gustav Mahler focuses principally on Mahler's first settings of Wunderhorn texts, volumes I and II of the Lieder und Gesaenge; his first song-cycle, the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; and the later orchestral settings of Wunderhorn poems. The central section of the book explores the extraordinary and often eccentric chronology of the First, Second and Third Symphonies' composition, an often minute exploration which reveals the interpenetration of song and symphony in this period of Mahler's art, emphasizes the significance for these works of imagery drawn from the Wunderhorn anthology, and calls attention to the ambiguous position occupied by much of Mahler's music at this time, suspended as it was between the rival claims - and forms - of symphony and symphonic poem. The final section of the book not only looks at the Fourth Symphony as the final, perhaps most perfect, flowering of Mahler's Wunderhorn symphonies, but also investigates such fascinating topics as the relationship between Mahler and Berlioz, and the influence of Bach on Mahler's later masterpieces. This new edition of the book offers an entirely new preface, in which Mitchell gives a unique account of the influence of politics, nationalism and fascism on the reception and rejection of Mahler's music, after the composer's death until the Mahler Renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s. It also includes extensive corrigenda and amplifying addenda, making it clear that the Wunderhorn influence persisted beyond the end of the period during which the Wunderhorn anthology was a constant source of inspiration. It is completed by an international bibliography which documents chronologically the reception and study of his music both in the past, and the prodigiously different circumstances of the present.