The Mahler Companion

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Donald Mitchell, Andrew Nicholson
Oxford University Press, 2002 - 647 ページ
The Mahler Companion consists of a collection of original essays on Mahler written especially for the occasion by Mahler specialists from around the world. It addresses all parts of his life and work-- symphonies, songs and song-cycles (each of which is discussed individually), his conducting activities, compositional habits, and aesthetic development--and sets these within the cultural and political context of his time. In addition, it responds to the global spread of this remarkable composer's music, and an almost universal fascination with it, by attempting to give an account of the reception of Mahler's music in many of the countries in which it eventually came to flourish, eg. Holland, France, Japan, Russia, England, and the United States. This particular series of chapters reveals that the 'Mahler Phenomenon' earned its description principally in the years after the Second World War, but also that the Mahler revival was already well under way pre-war, perhaps especially in England and the States, and most surprisingly of all, Japan.
The selection of contributors, who between them cover all Mahler's musical output, shows that here too this volume significantly crosses national boundaries. The very diverse approaches, analyses and commentaries, amply illustrated with music examples, are evidence of the uniquely rich and complex character of a music that spans more than one culture and more than one century. The volumes includes the most significant and up-to-date Mahler research and debate, and illumines some hitherto unexplored areas of Mahler's life eg. his visit to London in 1892, his sculptor daughter, Anna, and the hall in which the Seventh Symphony was first performed in Prague in 1908.

It has often been claimed that Mahler, born in 1860, was in fact a prophet of much that was to come in the 20th century. His later works undeniably anticipate, often with dazzling virtuosity, many of the principal techniques and aesthetics of the new century, only the first decade of which he lived to see. Small wonder that among his earliest admirers was a collective of some of the most important and innovative composers of our time, Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. Their successors (Copland, Shostakovich, and Britten, to name a few) were to range across contrasting cultures and national frontiers.

Drawing on the best resources and the most up-to-date information about the composer, this volume fulfils the need in Mahler literature for a genuinely comprehensive guide to the composer and will be the authoritative guide for Mahler enthusiasts for years to come.

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GUSTAV MAHLERS VIENNA
6
A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE FIRST
39
MAHLER AND DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN
69
6
84
3995
90
46
101
51
109
62
115
THE SEVENTH SYMPHONY
376
MAHLER IN PRAGUE 1908
400
THE EIGHTH SYMPHONY
407
MAHLER IN AMERICA
422
DAS LIED VON DER ERDE
438
THE NINTH SYMPHONY
467
THE TENTH SYMPHONY
491
WAGNER LIPINER AND THE PURGATORIO
508

TODTENFEIER AND THE SECOND SYMPHONY
123
MAHLER AND GERMANY
133
MAHLER AND FRANCE
141
TRANSCENDENCE AND EMOTION
153
PROGRAMMES POLITICS AND MAHLERS
171
MAHLERS FOURTH SYMPHONY
187
MAHLERS KAMMERMUSIKTON
217
ETERNITY OR NOTHINGNESS? MAHLERS FIFTH SYMPHONY
236
153
302
MAHLER AND HOLLAND
326
THE RÜCKERT LIEDER
338
THE SIXTH SYMPHONY
366
MAHLER AND RUSSIA
517
MAHLER AND JAPAN
531
MAHLER IN LONDON IN 1892
539
ITS ORIGINS
547
THEN AND NOW
565
A MEMOIR OF HIS DAUGHTER ANNA
580
PIANO QUARTET AND SONGS
597
Sources
609
Index of Works
627
General Index
633
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Dr Mitchell is a Trustee of the Britten-Pears Foundation and Chariman of the Britten Estate Ltd; Founder Professor of Music at the University of Sussex (1971 - 1976); and is currently visiting Professor at Sussex, York and King's College, London. He was awarded the Gustav Mahler Medal of Honour of the International Gustav Mahler Society in 1987, in Vienna.Dr Mitchell is Research Fellow in Romantic Studies in the Department of English, University of Bristol. His principal interest is in Byron having published several books on the poet, including Lord Byron: The Complete Miscellaneous Prose (OUP 1991).

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