| Description |
x, 766 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Physical Medium |
regular print |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911.
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Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911. |
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Composers -- Austria -- Biography.
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Composers. |
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Austria. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Fischer, Jens Malte. Gustav Mahler. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011 9780300172195 (OCoLC)759160516 |
| ISBN |
9780300134445 cloth alkaline paper |
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0300134444 cloth alkaline paper |
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0978300134445 cl alkaline paper |
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