Author: Jens Malte FischerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300134444
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Translation of: Gustav Mahler: Der fremde Vertraute.
Gustav Mahler and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra Tour America
Author: Mary H. WagnerPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810857209
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Gustav Mahler and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra Tour America documents Mahler's tours with the orchestra during the 1909 and 1910 seasons, detailing the conditions and preparations for each tour, the outcome of each concert, and the perceptions of audience beyond New York City.
Gustav Mahler
Author: Jens Malte FischerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300134444
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Translation of: Gustav Mahler: Der fremde Vertraute.
Gustav Mahler's American Years, 1907-1911
Author: Gustav MahlerPublisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9780918728739
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : de
Pages : 580
Book Description
Experiencing Mahler
Author: Arved AshbyPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538104873
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Experiencing Mahler surveys the symphonies and major song sets of Gustav Mahler, presenting them not just as artworks but as vivid and deeply felt journeys. Mahler took the symphony, perhaps the most tradition-bound genre in Western music, and opened it to the widest span of human experience. He introduced themes of love, nature, the chasmic depth of midnight, making peace with death, facing rebirth, seeking one’s creator, and being at one with God. Arved Ashby offers the non-specialist a general introduction into Mahler’s seemingly unbounded energy to investigate the elements that make each work an experiential adventure—one that has redefined the symphonic genre in new ways. In addition to the standard nine symphonies, Ashby discusses Das Lied von der Erde, the three most commonly heard song sets (the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Kindertotenlieder, and Rückert-Lieder), and the unfinished Tenth Symphony (in Cooke’s edition). Experiencing Mahler is a far-reaching and often provocative search for meaning in the music of one of the most beloved composers of all time.
Gustav Mahler: Volume 3. Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion (1904-1907)
Author: Henry-Louis de La GrangePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780193151604
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
When the second volume of de La Grange's monumental study of Mahler appeared, it was hailed in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and many other publications as an indispensable portrait of the great composer. Here at last is the third volume of this magisterial work. Ranging from 1904 to 1907, it explores Mahler's final years as administrator, producer, and conductor of the Vienna Opera. It was a time of intense inner struggle, with Mahler's energy and creative powers drained by the competing demands of running the Hofoper and struggling for recognition as a composer. And they were tragic years as well, especially 1907, Mahler's last year in Vienna, when the death of his daughter and the diagnosis of heart disease forced him to leave the Opera. Throughout the book, de La Grange offers true-to-life portraits of Mahler the human being, the family man, and the composer, and he weaves in innumerable testimonies and anecdotes that throw new light on the great composer's complex personality. The product of forty years of research, here is the definitive study of a musical giant. It is, as The Wall Street Journal said of volume two, "a work of the first importance, one that nobody seriously interested in Mahler can possibly afford to skip."
The Marriage
Author: Joseph HorowitzGustav Mahler's Symphonic Landscapes
Author: Thomas PeattiePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110702708X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
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.
Classical Music In America
Author: Joseph HorowitzPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393057171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
An award-winning scholar and leading authority on American symphonic culture argues that classical music in the United States is peculiarly performance-driven, and he traces a musical trajectory rising to its peak at the close of the 19th century and receding after World War I.
Aaron Copland and the American Legacy of Gustav Mahler
Author: Matthew MugmonPublisher: Eastman Studies in Music
ISBN: 1580469647
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Reveals how Aaron Copland's complex relationship with the music of Gustav Mahler shaped his vision for American music in the twentieth century.
Gustav Mahler
Author: Constantin FlorosPublisher: Amadeus Press
ISBN: 1574672657
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
(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.