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Gustav Mahler
Translation of: Gustav Mahler: Der fremde Vertraute.
Castle
Text and detailed drawings follow the planning and construction of a "typical" castle and adjoining town in thirteenth-century Wales. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Gustav Mahler
Available again for a new generation of Mahlerians, Donald Mitchell's famous study of the composer's early life and music, revised and updated in 1980, includes a new introduction by the author, and supplementary addenda, which bring this classic work once again to the forefront of Mahler studies. Tracing Mahler's life from his birth in Bohemia, then part of the mighty Austro-Hungarian empire, to his early works (many now lost) Gustav Mabler: The Early Years forms an indispensable prelude to the period during which the cycle of great symphonies was to evolve. The conflicts which came to mark Mahler's music and personality had their beginnings in his childhood and youth. Without understanding the territorial, social and familial conflicts of this time one cannot truly appreciate the impulses behind the major symphonies and song cycles of his later years. Book jacket.
Birgit Nilsson: 100
On May 17, 2018, Birgit Nilsson (1918 - 2005) celebrated Swedish dramatic soprano, would have celebrated her 100th birthday.Arguably the last of the 'true' Wagnerians, she was by no means limited to Wagner. Her Isolde and Brünnhilde together with Salome, Elektra, Dyer's Wife and Turandot were often collectively referred to as the 'Nilsson repertoire'.Birgit Nilsson's voice was capable of flooding an opera house with 'oceans of sound' which no commercial recording has ever been able to capture; recordings of live opera broadcasts however come much closer to the 'real' Nilsson voice.This epic book is an homage in appreciation of countless glorious performances. Her career lasted almost 40 yea...
The Third Walpurgis Night
The first complete English translation of a far-seeing polemic, written in 1933 by the preeminent German-language satirist, unmasking the Nazi seizure of power Now available in English for the first time, Austrian satirist and polemicist Karl Kraus’s Third Walpurgis Night was written in immediate response to the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 but withheld from publication for fear of reprisals against Jews trapped in Germany. Acclaimed when finally published by Kösel Verlag in 1952, it is a devastatingly prescient exposure, giving special attention to the regime’s corruption of language as masterminded by Joseph Goebbels. Bertolt Brecht wrote to Kraus that, in his indictment of Nazism, “You have disclosed the atrocities of intonation and created an ethics of language.” This masterful translation, by the prizewinning translators of Kraus’s The Last Days of Mankind, aims for clarity where Kraus had good reason to be cautious and obscure.
Mahler Discography
Discografie van alle uitgegeven langspeelplaten met werken van de Oostenrijkse componist en dirigent (1860-1911)
Maravilla de la ópera
Maravilla de la Ópera es un libro -dedicado al gran cantante Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau- formado por catorce ensayos relacionados entre sí acerca de la fascinación de ese género musical sobre un público variado y numeroso. Jens Malte Fischer une a un riguroso y ameno análisis musical una atención especial a los factores no sólo estéticos, sino históricos, culturales y sociales de las diversas obras estudiadas. Los autores pertenecen a épocas muy diversas, que van desde finales del siglo xviii hasta el tiempo presente: Cherubini, Berlioz, Wagner, Verdi, Antonin Dvorak, Meyerbeer, Richard Strauss, Albéric Magnard, Kurt Weill, Ferruccio Busoni y Wolfgang Rihm. Compositores de una importancia capital en la Historia de la Música y también otros menos conocidos pero cuya personalidad reivindica el autor con una admirable riqueza de argumentos.
Richard Wagner and the Jews
It is well known that Richard Wagner, the renowned and controversial 19th century composer, exhibited intense anti–Semitism. The evidence is everywhere in his writings as well as in conversations his second wife recorded in her diaries. In his infamous essay “Judaism in Music,” Wagner forever cemented his unpleasant reputation with his assertion that Jews were incapable of either creating or appreciating great art. Wagner’s close ties with many talented Jews, then, are surprising. Most writers have dismissed these connections as cynical manipulations and rank hypocrisy. Examination of the original sources, however, reveals something different: unmistakeable, undeniable empathy and fr...
Recollections of Gustav Mahler
First published in English in 1980, this important early memoir of Gustav Mahler is by Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921), a viola player and close and devoted friend of Mahler until his marriage to Alma Schindler in 1902. She visited him in Hamburg and frequented his circle in Vienna, also accompanying him and his family on a number of the summer vacations during which the Second, Third and Fourth Symphonies came into being, together with many of the Wunderhorn songs. Compiled from Bauer-Lechner's private journal, these Recollections are a vital, invaluable record of Mahler's personal, professional and creative life during the last decade of the nineteenth century. A large part of the book recounts, at first hand, conversations with Mahler concerning his works and his ideas about performance (both in the opera-house and on the concert platform.)
Gustav Mahler
Recollections of Mahler written in 1936 by the composer's assistant conductor in Hamburg and at the Vienna Opera, plus Ernst Krenek's biographical sketch of Mahler and a new Introduction.
