Gustav Mahler: Volume 2. Vienna: The Years of Challenge (1897-1904) (inbunden)

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Format: Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 912
Utgivningsdatum: 1995-05-01
Upplaga: illustrated ed
Förlag: OUP Oxford
Originalspråk: French
Illustrationer: 32pl.figs.mus.exs.
Volymtitel: Vienna: The Years of Challenge (1897-1904)
Dimensioner: 242 x 169 x 52 mm
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ISBN: 9780193151598

Gustav Mahler: Volume 2. Vienna: The Years of Challenge (1897-1904)

Name: Gustav Mahler: Volume 2. Vienna: The Years of Challenge (1897-1904)
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Author: Henry-Louis De La Grange
ISBN: 9780193151598

Vienna : The Years of Challenge

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Gustav Mahler was one of the supremely gifted musicians of his generation. His contemporaries came to know him as a composer of startling originality whose greatest successes with the public never failed to provoke controversy among the critics. As a conductor, his relentless pursuit of perfection was sometimes viewed as tyrannical by the singers and musicians who came under his baton.

This is the second volume of de La Grange's monumental study of the life and music of Gustav Mahler. Thirty years of research and a vast array of documentary material are here co-ordinated into the definitive study of this supremely gifted musician. The volume chronicles Mahler's triumphant dbut as director of the Vienna Court Opera, his stormy and brief engagement as conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Concerts, and his tempestuous marriage with Alma Schindler. It also discusses many popular works he wrote in this period: the Fourth and Fifth Symphonies, and the Wunderhorn-, Rckert-, and Kindertotenleider.

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The Economist Arnold Schoenberg once claimed that everything about a great man like Gustav Mahler was of interest, even the way he tied his necktie. He would have loved the monumental Mahler biography by Henry-Louis de La Grange ... Mr de La Grange has spent much of his life digging out details about Mahler, right down to the contents of the country huts where he wrote his gigantic symphonies and the recipe for his favourite pudding, apricot dumplings. The result is an indispensable, ... highly readable account of the composer's life and times ... Even readers not stricken with Mahleria will find much to fascinate in the author's sweeping portrait of the crumbling Habsburg empire ... Mr de La Grange is just as good at painting the American background, too ... Mr de La Grange lays out far more evidence than anyone else.

BBC Music Magazine The book is a treasure-trove ... It is for the kaleidoscopically detailed way in which de La Grange asssembles a picture of the world in which Mahler worked, including his critics as well as the people he chose to surround himself with, that this biography deserves to be celebrated. It is in a class of its own. At 30, these 892 pages represent the musical bargain of the decade.

Peter Mullen, Yorkshire Evening Press La Grange's book is one of the greatest works of biography of modern times ... It is an electrifying read ... to read L Grange's majestic book is to learn to understand the meaning of our mentally-deranged century, and even to hear in the wonderful music what the antidote to all our troubles might be. I have not read anything remotely as gripping in years

Peter McCallum, The Sydney Morning Herald highly readable. In its painstaking thoroughness and scope, it is virtually unique in musical biography and, by any standards, a remarkable achievement

Daniel Johnson, The Times Henry-Louis de La Grange's four-volume biography, comparable only to Ernest Newman's life of Wagner, is commensurate in scale with the waxing of Mahler's reputation ... La Grange's vast canvas allows the reader to enter fully into Mahler's world ... The OUP is to be congratulated for embarking on this project

Peter Mullen, The Yorkshire Evening Press La Grange's book is one of the greatest works of biography of modern times ... It is an electrifying read. ... get hold of it, open it, and you will never be the same person again: it is as brilliant as that. ... I have not read anything remotely as gripping in years.

BBC Music Magazine this version definitively supersedes its predecessors. ... The added material is thus frequently of vital importance and interest ... The book is a treasure-trove. ... It is for the kaleidoscopically detailed way in which de La Grange assembles a picture of the world in which Mahler worked, including his critics as well as the people he chose to surround himself with, that this biography deserves to be celebrated. It is in a class of its own. At 30, these 892 page...

<br>Henry-Louis de La Grange is President of the Gustav Mahler Musical Library, Paris. He is also a chevalier of the Order of the Legion d'honneur, and an officer of the Ordre du Merite.<br>