Selected letters of Gustav Mahler / the original edition selected by Alma Mahler, enlarged and edited with new introduction, illustrations and notes by Knud Martner ; translated from the original German by Eithne Wilkins & Ernst Kaiser, and Bill Hopkins.
| Author/creator | Mahler, Gustav |
| Other author | Mahler, Alma, 1879-1964. |
| Other author | Knud, Martner, editor, illustrator. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | Revised edition. |
| Publication Info | London ; Boston : Faber, ©1979. |
| Description | 480 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Foreword to the first edition / Alma Maria Mahler -- Note on editing the letters (first edition) / Alma Mahler -- Letters. Vienna, Bad Hall, Laibach and Olmutz (1877-1883) -- Kassel (1883-1885) -- Prague and Leipzig (1885-1888) -- Budapest (1888-1891) -- Hamburg (1891-1897) -- Vienna (1) (1897-1901) -- Vienna (2) (1902-1907) -- The last years (1908-1911) -- Supplement. 13 letters to Gustav Mahler from his parents and sisters. |
| Abstract | Alma Mahler, the composer's widow, edited and published some 400 of his letters in their original German in 1924. This highly important collection now appears in English. The letters span Mahler's life from his seventeenth year to his death in 1911. Fascinating in themselves, the letters offer vivid insights into Mahler's life and times, his personality, his conducting and, most revealing of all, into his music and its composition. To the contents of the first edition are now added twenty-tree new letters and thirteen written to Mahler by his parents and sisters. The present edition restored passages omitted by Alma Mahler and has been annotated by Mahler scholars. |
| General note | The original edition selected by Alma Mahler, enlarged and edited with new introduction, illustrations, and notes by Knud Martner. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 23-24) and index. |
| ISBN | 0571086438 : |