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Mahler in Context explores the institutions, artists, thinkers, cultural movements, socio-political conditions, and personal relationships that shaped Mahler's creative output. Focusing on the contexts surrounding the artist, the collection provides a sense of the complex crosscurrents against...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: |
2022. ©2021 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First paperback edition. |
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Composers in context
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| Summary: |
Mahler in Context explores the institutions, artists, thinkers, cultural movements, socio-political conditions, and personal relationships that shaped Mahler's creative output. Focusing on the contexts surrounding the artist, the collection provides a sense of the complex crosscurrents against which Mahler was reacting as conductor, composer, and human being. Topics explored include his youth and training, performing career, creative activity, spiritual and philosophical influences, and his reception after his death. Together, this collection of specially commissioned essays offers a wide-ranging investigation of the ecology surrounding Mahler as a composer and a fuller appreciation of the topics that occupied his mind as he conceived his works. Readers will benefit from engagement with lesser known dimensions of Mahler's life. Through this broader contextual approach, this book will serve as a valuable and unique resource for students, scholars, and a general readership. |
| Carrier Form: | xxv, 319 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781108438353 1108438350 9781108423779 1108423779 |
| Index Number: | ML410 |
| CLC: | K835.215.76 |
| Call Number: | K835.215.76/M214-1 |
| Contents: |
Family life / A childhood in Bohemia : early teachers and friends / Music in Iglau, 1860-1875 / Student culture in 1870s Vienna / Viennese musical associates, 1875-1883 / Becoming a conductor : the early years in Mahler's career / Between "Thrice homeless and "To the Germans in Austria" : political conditions in Mahler's Europe / Operatic and orchestral repertoire / Collaborators / A perfect storm : Mahler's New York / Celebrity / The composer "goes to press" : Mahler's dealings with engravers and publishers in Vienna around 1900 / Mahler and program music / Intertextuality in Mahler / The symphony, 1870-1911 / Mahler and the visual arts of his time / Mahler and modernism / Reception in Vienna / Mahler's press from London to Los Angeles / Organized religion / German idealism / Nietzsche / Fechner / Literary enthusiasms / Romantic relationships / Mahler and death / Posthumous reputation, 1911 to World War II / Mahler and the Second Viennese School / The Mahler revival / Broader musical influence / Adorno / Influences in literature / Mahler on disc / Film and recent popular culture / |