Gustav Mahler
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (665 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300134444 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 766 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Not just another Mahler Biography Paul Fishbein Not Just another Mahler BiographyByPaul Fishbein Not long ago, I thoroughly disagreed with Paul Gelman about his review of Norman Lebrecht's recent book on Gustav Mahler. I found humor, entertainment, and profound understanding in this subjective study of Mahler's pertinence for us a century after his untimely death. H. "A wonderful and insightful look into the music and life behind" according to Amazon Customer. A wonderful and insightful look into the music and life behind the music of one of the greatest and most profound composers of all time.. "Good current biography of Mahler" according to James I. Nie. Wonderful update to all the other biographies. I will use this as a point of departure for my next class on Mahler.
He also illustrates why Mahler is a prime example of artistic idealism worn down by Austrian anti-Semitism and American commercialism. 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. A best seller when first published in Germany in 2003, Jens Malte
“Sympathetic evocative original and refreshingly opinionated.”—John Adams, New York Times Book Review