The Life of Mahler

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-521-46761-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 344 g

Reihe: Musical Lives

'. a person should remain a 'person' and not be frozen into a legend' (Alma Mahler). As a leading European conductor, and the composer of enormous and controversial symphonies, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) inspired mythologisers in his own lifetime. Some of them were personal friends, concerned to counter biased criticism of him in which German-nationalist, hide-bound traditionalist or anti-semitic elements were often mixed. In this new biography, Peter Franklin re-confronts the myth of Mahler the misunderstood hero and attempts to find the person, or persons, behind the legends: the profoundly sensitive thinker and composer, the dictatorial conductor and husband, the iconoclast, the traditionalist. Mahler's life and work emerge as a battle-ground for some of the major conflicting currents and impulses of his period, in which Empires and ideals struggled with the spectre of their own destruction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Franklin, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Mahler's world; 2. Becoming a musician in Vienna; 3. Playing the artist - the beginnings of a career; 4. The 'devil' in the wings; 5. Imperial and royal (Nature and the city); 6. Alma's Mahler; 7. On the heights; 8. 'What I leave behind me.'.