Gustav Mahler

Jens Malte Fischer ; translated by Stewart Spencer

A bestseller when first published in Germany in 2003, Jens Malte Fischer's "Gustav Mahler" has been lauded by scholars as a landmark work. He draws on important primary resources - some unavailable to previous biographers - and sets in narrative context the extensive correspondence between Mahler and his wife, Alma; Alma Mahler's diaries; and, the memoirs of Natalie Bauer-Lechner, a viola player and close friend of Mahler, whose private journals provide insight into the composer's personal and professional lives and his creative process. Fischer explores Mahler's early life, his relationship to literature, his achievements as a conductor in Vienna and New York, his unhappy marriage, and his work with the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic in his later years. He also illustrates why Mahler is a prime example of artistic idealism worn down by Austrian anti-Semitism and American commercialism. "Gustav Mahler" is the best-sourced and most balanced biography available about the composer, a nuanced and intriguing portrait of his dramatic life set against the backdrop of early 20th century America and fin de siecle Europe.

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書名 Gustav Mahler
著作者等 Fischer, Jens Malte
Spencer, Stewart
書名別名 Gustav Mahler : der fremde Vertraute
出版元 Yale University Press
刊行年月 2011
ページ数 x, 766 p., [16] p. of plates
大きさ 25 cm
ISBN 9780300134445
NCID BB07571292
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言語 英語
原文言語 ドイツ語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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