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The Cambridge Companion to Mahler
In the years approaching the centenary of Mahler's death, this book provides both summation of, and starting point for, an assessment and reassessment of the composer's output and creative activity. Authored by a collection of leading specialists in Mahler scholarship, its opening chapters place the composer in socio-political and cultural contexts, and discuss his work in light of developments in the aesthetics of musical meaning. Part II examines from a variety of analytical, interpretative and critical standpoints the complete range of his output, from early student works and unfinished fragments to the sketches and performing versions of the Tenth Symphony. Part III evaluates Mahler's role as interpreter of his own and other composers' works during his lifelong career as operatic and orchestral conductor. Part IV addresses Mahler's fluctuating reception history from scholarly, journalistic, creative, public and commercial perspectives, with special attention being paid to his compositional legacy.
Malevolent Muse
Of all the colorful figures on the twentieth-century European cultural scene, hardly anyone has provoked more polarity than Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel (1879-1964), mistress to a long succession of brilliant men and wife of three of the best known: composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius and writer Franz Werfel. To her admirers Alma was a self-sacrificing socialite who inspired many great artists. Her detractors found her a self-aggrandizing social climber and an alcoholic, bigoted, vengeful harlot - as one contemporary put it, "a cross between a grande dame and a cesspool." So who was she really? When historian Oliver Hilmes discovered a treasure-trove of unpublished mater...
Gustav Mahler
Translation of: Gustav Mahler: Der fremde Vertraute.
Gustav Mahler
The author's second book on the life and work of Gustav Mahler focuses principally on Mahler's first settings of Wunderhorn texts, volumes I and II of the Lieder und Gesaenge; his first song-cycle, the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; and the later orchestral settings of Wunderhorn poems. The central section of the book explores the extraordinary and often eccentric chronology of the First, Second and Third Symphonies' composition, an often minute exploration which reveals the interpenetration of song and symphony in this period of Mahler's art, emphasizes the significance for these works of imagery drawn from the Wunderhorn anthology, and calls attention to the ambiguous position occupied b...
Gustav and Alma Mahler
This revised edition of Garland's 1989 publication updates the core bibliography on Gustave Mahler (as well as his spouse and fellow composer Alma Mahler) by incorporating new research gathered over the past dozen years on his life and professional works. Gustave Mahler, renowned conductor and composer of symphonies and song cycles, is one of the foremost musical figures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His symphonies continue to be widely performed and studied through the twenty-first century. Organized in sections according to subject matter, references are arranged alphabetically by the names of authors or editors. Filler’s research has produced sources for musicologists and students in nineteen languages, offering a resource that expands traditional English-language music scholarship.
Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000
This new volume incorporates all entries from the previous editions by Arthur Wenk, expanding to cover writings drawn from periodicals, theses, dissertations, books, and Festschriften from 1940 to 2000. Over 9,000 references to analyses of works by over 1,000 composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are included.
Schoenberg's Correspondence with Alma Mahler
Schoenberg's Correspondence with Alma Mahler documents a modern music friendship spanning a half century (1903-1951) and two continents.
Heinrich Besseler und Jacques Handschin
Der Briefwechsel zwischen den beiden Musikhistorikern Heinrich Besseler (1900–1969) und Jacques Handschin (1886–1955) dokumentiert einen fast drei Jahrzehnte dauernden Austausch. Er reicht von 1925 bis 1954, ein Jahr vor Handschins Tod, und wird hier erstmals in einer kommentierten Ausgabe vorgelegt, welche die Briefe zwischen 1925 und 1954 umfasst. Die Korrespondenz zwischen Besseler und Handschin spiegelt einerseits unterschiedliche weltanschauliche und politische Positionen vor und nach 1933 und 1945 in Deutschland und der Schweiz, konzentriert sich andererseits auf die vielschichtige teils konträre Interpretation von Quellen von der frühen Mehrstimmigkeit bis ins 15. Jahrhundert. Dabei bieten die Briefe vielfach Autorenkommentare zu den teils noch in ihrem Entstehen begriffenen wissenschaftlichen Publikationen der beiden Protagonisten. Neben einer zeit- und wissenschaftshistorischen Dokumentation entsteht so auch ein Abbild intensiver inhaltlicher Auseinandersetzung. Im Bemühen um die Musikgeschichte zeigen sich hierbei zwei Forscher, die durch dieselben Interessen geeint, jedoch selten einer Meinung waren.
Music and Displacement
The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond constitutes a pioneering volume that aims to fill this gap as it explores the interactions between music and displacement in theoretical and practical terms. Contributions by distinguished international scholars address the theme through a wide range of case studies, incorporating art, popular, folk, and jazz music and interacting with areas, such as...
