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The life of Mahler / Peter Franklin.
| Author/creator | Franklin, Peter |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997. |
| Description | ix, 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Musical lives Musical lives. ^A389495 |
| Contents | Mahler's world -- Becoming a musician in Vienna -- Playing the artist, the beginnings of a career -- The 'devil' in the wings -- Imperial and royal (nature and the city) -- Alma's Mahler -- On the heights -- 'What I leave behind me...". |
| Abstract | As a leading European conductor, and the composer of enormous and controversial symphonies, Gustav Maher (1860-1911) inspired mythologizers in his own lifetime. Some of them were personal friends, concerned to counter biased criticism of him in which German-nationalist, hide-bound traditionalist or antisemitic elements were often mixed. In this new biography, Peter Franklin re-confronts the myth of Mahler the misunderstood hero and attempts to find the person, or persons, behind the legends: the profoundly sensitive thinker and composer, the dictatorial conductor and husband, the iconoclast, the traditionalist. Mahler's life and works emerge as battle-grounds for some of the major conflicting currents and impulses of his period, in which Empires and ideals struggled with the spectre of their own destruction. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-219) and index. |
| LCCN | 96025105 |
| ISBN | 0521461995 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0521467616 (pbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML410.M23 F69 1997 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |