Gustav Mahler [electronic resource] / Jens Malte Fischer ; translated by Stewart Spencer.
Fischer, Jens Malte.; Spencer, Stewart.
2011
ML410.M23 F45 2011eb
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Title Gustav Mahler [electronic resource] / Jens Malte Fischer ; translated by Stewart Spencer.
Author Fischer, Jens Malte.
ISBN 9780300172195 (electronic book)
9780300134445
Imprint New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 766 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill.
Call Number ML410.M23 F45 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 780.92 B
Summary A best seller when first published in Germany in 2003, Jens Malte Fischer's Gustav Mahler has been lauded by scholars as a landmark work. He draws on important primary resources - some unavailable to previous biographers- and sets in narrative context the extensive correspondence between Mahler and his wife, Alma; Alma Mahler's diaries; and the memoirs of Natalie Bauer-Lechner, a viola player and close friend of Mahler, whose private journals provide insight into the composer's personal and professional lives and his creative process. Fischer explores Mahler's early life, his relationship to literature, his achievements as a conductor in Vienna and New York, his unhappy marriage, and his work with the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic in his later years. He also illustrates why Mahler is a prime example of artistic idealism worn down by Austrian anti-Semitism and American commercialism. Gustav Mahler is the best-sourced and most balanced biography available about the composer, a nuanced and intriguing portrait of his dramatic life set against the backdrop of early 20th century America and fin de siècle Europe.
Note First published under the title Gustav Mahler : der fremde Vertraute.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
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1. What did Mahler look like?: an attempt at a description
2. Small steps: Kalischt and Iglau (1860-75)
3. Studies in Vienna (1875-80)
4. The summer conductor: Bad Hall (1880)
5. Emotional ups and downs in Laibach (1881-2)
6. For the last time in the provinces: Olmütz (1882-3)
7. Presentiment and a new departure: Kassel (1883-5)
8. The avid reader: Mahler and literature
9. Becoming Mahler: Prague (1885-6)
10. The first symphony
11. Life's vicissitudes: Leipzig (1886-8)
12. Notes on Mahler's songs
13. Lowland dreams: Budapest (1888-91)
14. The conductor
15. The second symphony
16. Self-realization: Hamburg (1891-7)
17. Jewishness and identity
18. The third symphony
19. The god of the southern climes: Vienna (1897-1901)
20. Mahler's illnesses: a pathographical sketch
21. The fourth symphony
22. Vienna in 1900: Alma as a young woman (1901-3)
23. The fifth symphony
24. "Nothing is lost to you": faith and philosophy
25. The sixth symphony
26. Opera reform, early years of marriage, Mahler's compositional method (1903-5)
27. The seventh symphony
28. The administrator, contemporaries, signs of crisis (1905-7)
29. The eighth symphony
30. Annus terribilis (1907)
31. Das Lied von der Erde
32. Starting afresh: New York (1908-11)
33. The ninth symphony
34. Crisis and culmination (1910)
35. The fragmentary tenth symphony
36. "My heart is weary": the farewell
37. Mahler and posterity.

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