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Mahler Studies comprises ten innovative essays on topics spanning the range of current Mahler research. Blaukopf's inquiry into critical influences on Mahler's student years provides background for Reilly's reassessment of sources for 'Opus 1', Das klagende Lied. McClatchie introduces Mahler's previously inaccessible correspondence with family members, while Feder presents insightful psychoanalytic perspectives on Mahler's relationships to his sister...

"My time will come." This prophecy, which Gustav Mahler made in the face of the misunderstanding, attacks, and downright abuse he had to suffer during his lifetime, has been fulfilled. In the years immediately following his death in 1911, there were, of course, many isolated groups devoted to propagating Mahler's work, but, as the author points out in this book, what had been taken as genuine understanding turned out to be mere fashion. But, in the...

Arguably the best known Mahler symphony, "Symphony No. 5" features a broad musical canvas and emotional scope. Herbert von Karajan said once that when you hear Mahler's Fifth, "you forget that time has passed." English lecturer and musician Jeremy Barham introduces the work at the piano and reflects on the secrets of the composition. Claudio Abbado conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.

In Mahler, Jonathan Carr reexamines Mahler's life and work on through the circumstances leading to his death in 1911. The focus is on Mahler's last decade, his tempestuous marriage to the alluring Alma Schindler, his work as a "summer composer" in isolated huts in the country, his revolutionary achievements as director of the Vienna opera and his final years in America. But it sets the stage by looking into Mahler's earlier career as a talented, ambitious,...

"Using the composer's own sketches, and a thorough knowledge of his orchestral style, Remo Mazetti [sic], Jr.'s reconstruction of Mahler's 10th Symphony, in its world premiere recording, gives us a vision of how this extraordinary work might sound if Mahler had lived to complete it."--Container insert

Gustav Mahler was one of the supremely gifted musicians of his generation. His contemporaries came to know him as a composer of startling originality whose greatest successes with the public never failed to provoke controversy among the critics. As a conductor, his relentless pursuit of perfection was sometimes viewed as tyrannical by the singers and musicians who came under his baton. Professor Henry-Louis de La Grange has devoted more than thirty...