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Mahler Remembered

Norman Lebrecht
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Author : Norman Lebrecht
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571272839

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Gustav Mahler is the most influential symphonist of the twentieth century. In this pioneering study, Norman Lebrecht reveals the man and musician through the words of his contemporaries. Using many previously unpublished documents, he constructs a profile of Mahler even more complex and compelling than that familiar from his letters and the often unreliable memoirs of his widow, Alma. Compassionate or callous, idealistic or pragmatic, Mahler aroused violently contrasting impressions and emotions in those who lived and worked with him. Accounts of the composer include the artist Alfred Roller's description of Mahler's naked body, a Nazi-era reappraisal by one of his closest relatives, Natalie Bauer-Lechner's unpublished jottings of Mahler's childhood, and Stefan Zweig's report of his final voyage. Together, they form a remarkable and deeply illuminating image of a formidable personality. 'The effect is cumulative, sometimes contradictory and vivid - like a written version of a radio or film portrait.' Classical Music 'Norman Lebrecht's Mahler Remembered is quite breathtakingly interesting.' Birmingham Post

Why Mahler?

Norman Lebrecht
Why Mahler Book PDF

Author : Norman Lebrecht
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781400096572

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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.

The Cambridge Companion to Mahler

Jeremy Barham
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Author : Jeremy Barham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139827201

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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 his work in light of developments in the aesthetics of musical meaning. Part II examines from a variety of analytical, interpretative and critical standpoints the complete range of his output, from early student works and unfinished fragments to the sketches and performing versions of the Tenth Symphony. Part III evaluates Mahler's role as interpreter of his own and other composers' works during his lifelong career as operatic and orchestral conductor. Part IV addresses Mahler's fluctuating reception history from scholarly, journalistic, creative, public and commercial perspectives, with special attention being paid to his compositional legacy.

Seeing Mahler: Music and the Language of Antisemitism in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna

K.M. Knittel
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Author : K.M. Knittel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317057796

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Seeing Mahler: Music and the Language of Antisemitism in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna by K.M. Knittel Pdf

No-one doubts that Gustav Mahler's tenure at the Vienna Court Opera from 1897-1907 was made extremely unpleasant by the antisemitic press. The great biographer, Henry-Louis de La Grange, acknowledges that 'it must be said that antisemitism was a permanent feature of Viennese life'. Unfortunately, the focus on blatant references to Jewishness has obscured the extent to which 'ordinary' attitudes about Jewish difference were prevalent and pervasive, yet subtle and covert. The context has been lost wherein such coded references to Jewishness would have been immediately recognized and understood. By painstakingly reconstructing 'the language of antisemitism', Knittel recreates what Mahler's audiences expected, saw, and heard, given the biases and beliefs of turn-of-the-century Vienna. Using newspaper reviews, cartoons and memoirs, Knittel eschews focusing on hostile discussions and overt attacks in themselves, rather revealing how and to what extent authors call attention to Mahler's Jewishness with more subtle language. She specifically examines the reviews of Mahler's Viennese symphonic premieres for their resonance with that language as codified by Richard Wagner, though not invented by him. An entire chapter is also devoted to the Viennese premieres of Richard Strauss's tone poems, as a proof text against which the reviews of Mahler can also be read and understood. Accepting how deeply embedded this way of thinking was, not just for critics but for the general population, certainly does not imply that one can find antisemitism under every stone. What Knittel suggests, ultimately, is that much of early criticism was unease rather than 'objective' reactions to Mahler's music - a new perspective that allows for a re-evaluation of what makes his music unique, thought-provoking and valuable.

The Virtuoso Conductors

Raymond Holden
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Author : Raymond Holden
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300093268

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An expert's guide to the skills of the greatest conductors

Gustav Mahler's Symphonic Landscapes

Thomas Peattie
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Author : Thomas Peattie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107027084

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Gustav Mahler's Symphonic Landscapes by Thomas Peattie Pdf

In this study Thomas Peattie offers a new account of Mahler's symphonies by considering the composer's reinvention of the genre in light of his career as a conductor and more broadly in terms of his sustained engagement with the musical, theatrical, and aesthetic traditions of the Austrian fin de siècle. Drawing on the ideas of landscape, mobility, and theatricality, Peattie creates a richly interdisciplinary framework that reveals the uniqueness of Mahler's symphonic idiom and its radical attitude toward the presentation and ordering of musical events. The book goes on to identify a fundamental tension between the music's episodic nature and its often-noted narrative impulse and suggests that Mahler's symphonic dramaturgy can be understood as a form of abstract theatre.

Gustav Mahler

Donald Mitchell
Gustav Mahler Book PDF

Author : Donald Mitchell
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843830035

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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.

Mahler Studies

Stephen E. Hefling
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Author : Stephen E. Hefling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997-02-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521471656

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Mahler Studies comprises ten innovative essays on topics spanning the range of Mahler research. Blaukopf's inquiry into critical influences on Mahler's student years provides background for Reilly's reassessment of sources for 'Opus 1', Das klagende Lied. McClatchie introduces Mahler's previously inaccessible correspondence with family members, while Feder presents insightful psychoanalytic perspectives on Mahler's relationships to his sister Justine and other women in his life before Alma. Mitchell and La Grange explore the complex issue of quotation and allusion in Mahler's oeuvre. The long-restricted Seventh Symphony sketchbook provides detailed glimpses of that Mahlerian 'world' emerging in its earliest stages, as documented by Hefling. Issues of tonal structure and coherence are addressed by Agawu and Williamson, while Franklin on Adorno's Mahler provides a clear explication of that author's dialectic engagement with the composer.

The Life of Mahler

Peter Franklin
The Life of Mahler Book PDF

Author : Peter Franklin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521467616

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The Life of Mahler by Peter Franklin Pdf

In this 1997 biography, Peter Franklin re-confronts the myth of Mahler and attempts to find the person behind the legends.

Gustav Mahler

Jens Malte Fischer
Gustav Mahler Book 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.

The Mahler Companion

Donald Mitchell,Andrew Nicholson
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Author : Donald Mitchell,Andrew Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199249652

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'the one-stop guide to Mahler -- a volume of essays covering the widest range of Mahlerian topics, designed both for the academic and serious amateur music-lover... The core of the compendium is its coverage of all the main works, carrying recent research, with plentiful musical examples and other illustrations.' -Andrew Green, Classical Music 08/11/1999'beautifully produced volume... a tribute that surveys the familiar with affectionate new insights... all the articles on Mahler's reception outside Austria, both during his life and after, make for fascinating reading.' -David Nice, BBC Music Magazine October 1999'The Mahler Companion constitutes a distinguished and fitting monument to Mitchell's lifelong devotion to Mahler, and, in mustering so much talent in one volume, there is no doubt that it will deservedly take its place among the most significant publications on the composer.' -Jeremy Barham, Music andamp; LettersA brilliant gathering of international Mahler specialists write about Mahler's music from a variety of standpoints. The global spread of the authors is matched by a series of chapters that document the global spread of the composer's own symphonies and song cycles, while hitherto unexplored areas of research receive attention, both places (such as London and Prague) and people (Mahler's only surviving and highly talented daughter--a sculptor--Anna. In short, a volume that draws on the best resources and most up-to-date information about the composer and will undoubtedly act as the authoritative guide for Mahler enthusiasts for years to come.

Inside Mahler's Second Symphony

Emeritus Rose Professor of Music Lawrence Bernstein,Lawrence F. Bernstein
Inside Mahler s Second Symphony Book PDF

Author : Emeritus Rose Professor of Music Lawrence Bernstein,Lawrence F. Bernstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-28
Category : Symphonies
ISBN : 9780197575635

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Inside Mahler's Second Symphony by Emeritus Rose Professor of Music Lawrence Bernstein,Lawrence F. Bernstein Pdf

This guide introduces concertgoers, serious listeners, and music students to Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony, one of the composer's most popular and most powerful works. It examines the symphony from several perspectives: Mahler's struggle to create what he called the New Symphony; his innovative approaches to traditional musical form; how he addressed the daunting challenges of writing music on a monumental scale; and how he dealt with the ineluctable force of Beethoven's symphonic precedent, especially that of the Ninth Symphony. The central focus of Inside Mahler's Second Symphony is on the music itself: how it works, how it works its magic on the listener, how it translates the earnest existential concerns that motivate the symphony into powerful and highly expressive music. Beyond this, the book ushers the Listener's Guide into the digital age with 185 exclusive audio examples. They are brief, accessible, and arranged to flow from one to another to simulate how the symphony might be presented in a classroom discussion. Each movement is also presented uninterrupted, accompanied by light annotations to remind the reader of what they learned about the movement. Each musical event in the uninterrupted presentation is keyed to its location in the orchestral score to accommodate readers who may wish to refer to one. An innovative combination of in-depth analysis and multimedia exploration, Inside Mahler's Second Sonata is a remarkable introduction to a masterpiece.

Reading Mahler

Carl Niekerk
Reading Mahler Book PDF

Author : Carl Niekerk
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781571134677

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Reading Mahler by Carl Niekerk Pdf

Examines literary, philosophical, and cultural influences on Mahler's thought and work from the standpoint of the composer's position in German-Jewish culture.

Mahler: Symphony No. 3

Peter Franklin
Mahler Symphony No 3 Book PDF

Author : Peter Franklin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1991-11-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521379474

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Mahler: Symphony No. 3 by Peter Franklin Pdf

Conceived as a musical picture of the natural world, the composition of Mahler's grandiose work is described here in the context of the ideas that inspired it and the artistic debates and social conflicts that it reflects.

Mahler's Nietzsche

Leah Batstone
Mahler s Nietzsche Book PDF

Author : Leah Batstone
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781837650019

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Mahler's Nietzsche by Leah Batstone Pdf

Examines how Nietzschean ideas influenced the composition of Mahler's first four, so-called Wunderhorn, symphonies. Gustav Mahler and Friedrich Nietzsche both exercised a tremendous influence over the twentieth century. All the more fascinating, then, is Mahler's intellectual engagement with the writings of Nietzsche. Given the limited and frequently cryptic nature of the composer's own comments on Nietzsche, Mahler's specific understanding of the elusive thinker is achieved through the examination of Nietzsche's reception amongst the people who introduced composer to philosopher: members of the Pernerstorfer Circle at the University of Vienna. Mahler's Nietzsche draws on a variety of primary sources to answer two key questions. The first is hermeneutic: what do Mahler's allusions to Nietzsche mean? The second is creative: how can Mahler's own characterization of Nietzsche as an "epoch-making influence" be identified in his compositional techniques? By answering these two questions, the book paints a more accurate picture of the intersections of the arts, philosophy and politics in fin-de-siècle Vienna. Mahler's Nietzsche will be required reading for scholars and students of nineteenth and early twentieth century German music and philosophy.