The life of Mahler
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Author
Publication
1997 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England
Language
English
Word Count
57,000 words, Guess
Page Count
228 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL987001M
- ISBN-100521461995
- OCLC Control Number34984150
- OCLC Control Numberlifeofmahler00fran
- Library of Congress Control Number96025105
and 2 more
- LibraryThing844658
- Goodreads849024
Classifications
- DDC780/.92
- LCCML410.M23 F69 1997
Description
As a leading European conductor, and the composer of enormous and controversial symphonies, Gustav Maher (1860-1911) inspired mythologizers in his own lifetime. Some of them were personal friends, concerned to counter biased criticism of him in which German-nationalist, hide-bound traditionalist or antisemitic elements were often mixed. In this new biography, Peter Franklin re-confronts the myth of Mahler the misunderstood hero and attempts to find the person, or persons, behind the legends: the profoundly sensitive thinker and composer, the dictatorial conductor and husband, the iconoclast, the traditionalist. Mahler's life and works emerge as battle-grounds for some of the major conflicting currents and impulses of his period, in which Empires and ideals struggled with the spectre of their own destruction.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Musical lives
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