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Passionate Spirit

Cate Haste
Passionate Spirit Book PDF

Author : Cate Haste
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408878347

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__________________________ 'Fascinating ... Haste paints a portrait of a woman who was born to triumph, not surrender' - Harper's Bazaar 'Written in elegant, lucid prose ... a treasure trove of European cultural riches and scandalous intrigue ... Compelling' - Economist 'Lively, well illustrated and enjoyably juicy' - Miranda Seymour, Financial Times __________________________ The life of an extraordinary artist and intellect: the composer, author and socialite Alma Mahler, whose life spanned one of the most captivating and dramatic periods in history Alma Mahler was once at the epicentre of Vienna's artistic and intellectual life. A talented composer in her own right, she was open, generous, remarkably creative, curious, challenging and zealous in her pursuit of love. Artists, architects, musicians and writers jostled to join her coterie. Gustav Klimt was her first kiss; Gustav Mahler her first husband. But her life was haunted by tragedy, and the support and inspiration that Alma gave to the men she loved came at the heavy price of her own artistic fulfilment. Drawing extensively on previously unpublished diaries and letters, Cate Haste illuminates the passionate spirit of one of history's most complex and charismatic muses, a modern woman with an elemental vitality that could scarcely be contained by her century – who will live forever in the art she created and inspired.

Gustav Mahler

Stuart Feder
Gustav Mahler Book PDF

Author : Stuart Feder
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0300103409

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Gustav Mahler by Stuart Feder Pdf

"The final crisis of Mahler's career occurred in 1910, when he learned that his wife, Alma, was having an affair with the architect Walter Gropius. The revelation precipitated a breakdown while Mahler was working on his Tenth Symphony. The anguished, suicidal notes Mahler scrawled across the manuscript of the unfinished symphony reveal his troubled state. It was a four-hour consultation with Sigmund Freud in Leiden, Holland, that restored the composer's equilibrium. Although Mahler left little record of what transpired in Leiden, Stuart Feder has reconstructed the encounter on the basis of surviving evidence. The cumulative stresses of the crises in Mahler's life, in particular Alma's betrayal, left him physically and emotionally vulnerable. He became ill and died soon after in 1911."--BOOK JACKET.

Gustav Mahler

Jens Malte Fischer
Gustav Mahler Book PDF

Author : Jens Malte Fischer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 55,9 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.

Real Mahler

Johnathan Carr
Real Mahler Book PDF

Author : Johnathan Carr
Publisher : Constable
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999-03
Category : Composers
ISBN : 0094795002

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Real Mahler by Johnathan Carr Pdf

Gustav Mahler may have become a popular composer, but he remains widely misunderstood both as a man and musician. This biography re-examines his life and work and the circumstances leading to his death in 1911.

The Life of Mahler

Peter Franklin
The Life of Mahler Book PDF

Author : Peter Franklin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521467616

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

Why Mahler?

Norman Lebrecht
Why Mahler Book PDF

Author : Norman Lebrecht
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,6 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.

Malevolent Muse

Oliver Hilmes
Malevolent Muse Book PDF

Author : Oliver Hilmes
Publisher : Northeastern University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555537890

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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 ŽmigrŽ 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.

Mahler and His World

Karen Painter
Mahler and His World Book PDF

Author : Karen Painter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780691218359

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Mahler and His World by Karen Painter Pdf

From the composer's lifetime to the present day, Gustav Mahler's music has provoked extreme responses from the public and from experts. Poised between the Romantic tradition he radically renewed and the austere modernism whose exponents he inspired, Mahler was a consummate public persona and yet an impassioned artist who withdrew to his lakeside hut where he composed his vast symphonies and intimate song cycles. His advocates have produced countless studies of the composer's life and work. But they have focused on analysis internal to the compositions, along with their programmatic contexts. In this volume, musicologists and historians turn outward to examine the broader political, social, and literary changes reflected in Mahler's music. Peter Franklin takes up questions of gender, Talia Pecker Berio examines the composer's Jewish identity, and Thomas Peattie, Charles S. Maier, and Karen Painter consider, respectively, contemporary theories of memory, the theatricality of Mahler's art and fin-de-siècle politics, and the impinging confrontation with mass society. The private world of Gustav Mahler, in his songs and late works, is explored by leading Austrian musicologist Peter Revers and a German counterpart, Camilla Bork, and by the American Mahler expert Stephen Hefling. Mahler's symphonies challenged Europeans and Americans to experience music in new ways. Before his decision to move to the United States, the composer knew of the enthusiastic response from America's urban musical audiences. Mahler and His World reproduces reviews of these early performances for the first time, edited by Zoë Lang. The Mahler controversy that polarized Austrians and Germans also unfolds through a series of documents heretofore unavailable in English, edited by Painter and Bettina Varwig, and the terms of the debate are examined by Leon Botstein in the context of the late-twentieth-century Mahler revival.

Gustav Mahler

Alfred Mathis-Rosenzweig
Gustav Mahler Book PDF

Author : Alfred Mathis-Rosenzweig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351217880

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Gustav Mahler by Alfred Mathis-Rosenzweig Pdf

Alfred Mathis-Rosenzweig (1897-1948) was a Viennese musicologist and critic who studied at the universities of Budapest and Vienna. From 1933 he embarked on producing a large-scale study of Mahler but at the time of his death the manuscript was left unfinished. Although it was presumed lost until 1997, the unfinished typescript, written in German, had been deposited in the library of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. In 2003, the School‘s Research Centre commissioned Jeremy Barham to prepare the first published edition of this important work, and his annotations and commentary add invaluable material to his translation of this historic document. 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. This is 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.

Gustav Mahler

Donald Mitchell
Gustav Mahler Book PDF

Author : Donald Mitchell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520041410

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Available again for a new generation of Mahlerians, Donald Mitchell's famous study of the composer's early life and music, revised and updated in 1980, includes a new introduction by the author, and supplementary addenda, which bring this classic work once again to the forefront of Mahler studies. Tracing Mahler's life from his birth in Bohemia, then part of the mighty Austro-Hungarian empire, to his early works (many now lost) Gustav Mabler: The Early Years forms an indispensable prelude to the period during which the cycle of great symphonies was to evolve. The conflicts which came to mark Mahler's music and personality had their beginnings in 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. Book jacket.

Gustav Mahler

Constantin Floros
Gustav Mahler Book PDF

Author : Constantin Floros
Publisher : Amadeus Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574672657

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Gustav Mahler by Constantin Floros Pdf

(Amadeus). Mahler's 10 symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde are intensely personal statements that have touched wide audiences. This survey examines each of the works, revealing their programmatic and personal aspects, as well as Mahler's musical techniques.

The Eighth

Stephen Johnson
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Author : Stephen Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226740966

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This “thrilling study of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No 8 . . . makes a strong case for its quality . . . we shall never listen to it in the same way again” (Guardian, UK). On September 12, 1910, Gustav Mahler’s Eighth Symphony had its world premiere at Munich’s new Musik Festhalle. It was the artistic breakthrough for which the composer had yearned all his life. An array of royals and stars from the musical and literary world were in attendance, including Thomas Mann and the young Arnold Schoenberg. Also present were Alma Mahler, the composer’s wife, and Alma’s longtime lover, the architect Walter Gropius. In The Eighth, Stephen Johnson provides a masterful account of the symphony’s far-reaching consequences and its effect on composers, conductors, and writers of the time. The Eighth looks behind the scenes at the demanding one-week rehearsal period leading up to the premiere—something unheard of at the time—and provides fascinating insight into Mahler’s compositional habits, his busy life as a conductor, his philosophical and literary interests, and his personal and professional relationships. Johnson expertly contextualizes Mahler’s work among the prevailing attitudes and political climate of his age, considering the art, science, technology, and mass entertainment that informed the world in 1910. The Eighth is an absorbing history of a musical masterpiece and the troubled man who created it.

Gustav Mahler's Symphonic Landscapes

Thomas Peattie
Gustav Mahler s Symphonic Landscapes Book PDF

Author : Thomas Peattie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,7 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.

Margaret Mahler

Alma Halbert Bond
Margaret Mahler Book PDF

Author : Alma Halbert Bond
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786482559

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Margaret Mahler by Alma Halbert Bond Pdf

Margaret Mahler was from a young age intrigued by the theories of Sigmund Freud and Hungarian psychoanalysts such as Sandor Ferenzci, with whom she became acquainted while a student in Budapest. Forced to flee Europe and rising anti–Semitism, Margaret and her husband, Paul, came to the United States in 1938. It was after this move that Mahler performed her most significant research and developed concepts such as the ground-breaking theory of separation-individuation, an idea which was given credence by Mahler’s own relationship with her father. This volume details the life and work of Margaret Mahler focusing on her life’s ambition—her psychoanalytical work. Her experiences with the Philadelphia Institute and her definitive research through the Masters Children’s Clinic are also discussed.

The Bride of the Wind

Susanne Keegan
The Bride of the Wind Book PDF

Author : Susanne Keegan
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:49015001368878

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The Bride of the Wind by Susanne Keegan Pdf

A perceptive, sweepingly dramatic biography of the astonishing woman who was wife, muse, and mistress to a generation of geniuses--composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, novelist Franz Werfel, and painter Oskar Kokoschka. "The most balanced biography of Alma Mahler yet to have appeared".--The Times Literary Supplement (London). Photographs.