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Neue Mahleriana
This collection of essays and monographs by friends and admirers of Professor Henry-Louis de La Grange was presented to him on the occasion of his seventieth birthday on 26 May 1994. Professor Henry-Louis de La Grange, now widely recognised as the doyen of Mahler research began to take an interest in Mahler in the early 1950s, at a time when musical audiences on both sides of the Atlantic knew little of Mahler's works, and tended to dismiss what they did know as mere 'Kapellmeistermusik'. Personal visits and exchanges of letters with Alma Mahler, and a close friendship with her daughter Anna, inspired and encouraged him in his determination to become Mahler's biographer. In 1973 the first pa...
Gustav Mahler, the Arduous Road to Vienna (1860-1897)
This long awaited revised volume I completes Henry-Louis de La Grange's four-volume English language biography of the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), which is widely considered to be the definitive work on the subject. The present instalment, covering the years 1860 to 1897, traces the life and career of Mahler from his birth in a small village in Bohemia to his appointment to the Vienna Hofoper, then the most prestigious opera house in the world. It describes his family background, his student days at the Vienna Conservatory, his private life, and his burgeoning career as both conductor and composer. Starting at a small summer theatre in Bad Hall, his first engagements took him...
Gustav Mahler: Volume 4: A New Life Cut Short (1907-1911)
This is the fourth volume in this definitive study of the life and music of Gustav Mahler. It concentrates on Mahler's least known period, his American years, and includes much new material (letters, articles, and interviews) about Mahler and the many performances he conducted at the Metropolitan Opera and the Philharmonic in New York.
Gustav Mahler
Lors de sa publication en 1979, le premier tome du Gustav Mahler d'Henry-Louis de La Grange fit sensation. Le compositeur du Chant de la Terre sortait à peine d'un purgatoire qui, en France, s'apparentait à une ignorance quasi absolue ; deux autres tomes, plus volumineux encore, en 1983 et 1984, achevaient cette révélation d'une oeuvre extraordinaire, d'un génie de la musique à la vie captivante et pathétique, dont les immenses symphonies allaient rapidement entrer au répertoire de tous les orchestres symphoniques du monde. Destin étonnant d'un créateur qui souhaitait que son oeuvre reflète "la création tout entière" et que lui-même devienne "un instrument dont joue l'univers"....
The Life of Mahler
In this 1997 biography, Peter Franklin re-confronts the myth of Mahler and attempts to find the person behind the legends.
Mahler
Theodor W. Adorno goes beyond conventional thematic analysis to gain a more complete understanding of Mahler's music through his character, his social and philosophical background, and his moment in musical history. Adorno examines the composer's works as a continuous and unified development that began with his childhood response to the marches and folk tunes of his native Bohemia. Since its appearance in 1960 in German, Mahler has established itself as a classic of musical interpretation. Now available in English, the work is presented here in a translation that captures the stylistic brilliance of the original. Theodor W. Adorno (1903-69), one of the foremost members of the Frankfurt school of critical theory, studied with Alban Berg in Vienna during the late twenties, and was later the director of the Institute of Social Research at the University of Frankfurt from 1956 until his death. His works include Aesthectic Theory, Introduction to the Sociology of Music, The Jargon of Authenticity, Prism, and Philosophy of Modern Music.
Picturing Death 1200–1600
Picturing Death: 1200–1600 brings together essays considering four key centuries of imagery related to human mortality, from tomb sculpture to painted altarpieces, from manuscripts to printed books, and from minute carved objects to large-scale architecture.
Thomas Cromwell
“An exceptional and compelling biography about one of the Tudor Age’s most complex and controversial figures.” —Alison Weir Thomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power. As King Henry VIII’s right-hand man, Cromwell was the architect of the English Reformation; secured Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon and plotted the downfall of his second wife, Anne Boleyn; and was fatally accused of trying to usurp the king himself. In this engrossing biography, acclaimed British historian Tracy Borman reveals a different side to one of history’s most notorious characters: that of a caring husband and father, a fiercely...
