The life of Mahler / Peter Franklin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Peter.

Series:

Musical lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911.

Mahler, Gustav.

Composers--Austria--Biography.

Composers.

Austria.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 228 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-219) and index.

ISBN:

0521461995

0521467616

OCLC:

34984150