| Contents |
The young Mahler, 1875-1880: essay in situational analysis after Karl R. Popper / Herta Blaukopf -- Das klagende Lied reconsidered / Edward R. Reilly -- "Liebste justi!": the family letters of Gustav Mahler / Stephen McClatchie -- Before Alma: Gustav Mahler and "Das Ewig-Weibliche" / Stuart Feder -- Mahler and Smetana: significant influences or accidental parallels? / Donald Mitchell -- Music about music in Mahler: reminiscences, allusions, or quotations? / Henry-Louis de la Grange -- "Ihm in die Lieder zu blicken": Mahler's Seventh Symphony sketchbook / Stephen E. Hefling -- Prolonged counterpoint in Mahler / Kofi Agawu -- Dissonance and middleground prolongations in Mahler's later music / John Williamson -- " ... his fractures are the script of truth.": Adorno's Mahler / Peter Franklin. |
| Abstract |
This book comprises ten innovative essays on topics spanning the range of current Mahler research. Blaukopf's inquiry into critical influences on Mahler's student years provides background for Reilly's reassessment of sources for 'Opus 1', Das klagende Lied. The editor introduces Mahler's previously inaccessible correspondence with family members, while Feder presents insightful psychoanalytic perspectives on Mahler's relationships to his sister Justine and other women in his life before Alma. Mitchell and La Grange explore the complex issue of quotation and allusion in Mahler's oeuvre. The long-restricted Seventh Symphony sketchbook provides our first detailed glimpses of that Mahlerian 'world' emerging in its earliest stages, as documented by Hefling. Issues of tonal structure and coherence are addressed by Agawu and Williamson, while Franklin on Adorno's Mahler provides a clear explication of that author's dialectic engagement with the composer. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 96010284 |
| ISBN | 0521471656 (hc) |
