Gustav Mahler

Stephen Downes (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2025
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
9781836390305 (ISBN)

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The ambiguous, provocative Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler.

Gustav Mahler’s status as an icon of fin-de-siècle Viennese music is assured, with his works now staples of the concert repertoire. His life story has been told in numerous biographies, films and novels, yet he remains an ambiguous, provocative figure. Mahler was a composer who challenged musical form and style but identified with German Enlightenment and Romantic culture, disliking many contemporary artistic trends. He was a Jewish conductor who reached the pinnacle of his profession in antisemitic Vienna. He was supposedly haunted by death, embroiled in a torrid marriage, and his brief meeting with Freud has spurred posthumous psychoanalytical speculations. This book, reflecting the latest research, constructs a fresh interpretation of Mahler’s music in relation to his life.

Stephen Downes is Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. His books include Music and Sentimentalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2021).

1.              Prologue: Mahler’s
Deaths/Mahler’s Lives

2.              Mahler’s
Childhood

3.              Mahler the Reader

4.              Mahler the
Maestro

5.              Mahler Composing in
the Country

6.              Gustav and Alma

7.              The Late Gustav
Mahler

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Erscheinungsdatum	03.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Critical Lives
Zusatzinfo	32 illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 200 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
ISBN-13	9781836390305 / 9781836390305
Zustand	Neuware