Mahler and his world / edited by Karen Painter.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Painter, Karen.

Conference Name:

Bard Music Festival.

Series:

Bard Music Festival series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911--Criticism and interpretation.

Mahler, Gustav.

Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911.

Mahler, Gustav <1860-1911>--Critique et interprétation.

Criticism and interpretation.

Local Subjects:

Mahler, Gustav <1860-1911>--Critique et interprétation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Aufsatzsammlung.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2002]

Summary:

From the composer's lifetime to the present day, Gustav Mahler's music has provoked extreme responses from the public and from experts. Poised between the Romantic tradition he radically renewed and the austere modernism whose exponents he inspired, Mahler was a consummate public persona and yet an impassioned artist who withdrew to his lakeside hut where he composed his vast symphonies and intimate song cycles. His advocates have produced countless studies of the composer's life and work. But they have focused on analysis internal to the compositions, along with their programmatic contexts. In this volume, musicologists and historians turn outward to examine the broader political, social, and literary changes reflected in Mahler's music. Peter Franklin takes up questions of gender, Talia Pecker Berio examines the composer's Jewish identity, and Thomas Peattie, Charles S. Maier, and Karen Painter consider contemporary theories of memory, the theatricality of Mahler's art and fin-de-sic̈le politics, and the impinging confrontation with mass society. Mahler's symphonies challenged Europeans and Americans to experience music in new ways. Before his decision to move to the United States, the composer knew of the enthusiastic response from America's urban musical audiences. Mahler and his world reproduces reviews of these early performances for the first time. The Mahler controversy that polarized Austrians and Germans also unfolds through a series of documents heretofore unavailable in English, edited by Painter and Bettina Varwig, and the terms of the debate are examined by Leon Botstein in the context of the late-twentieth-century Mahler revival.

Contents:

pt. 1. Context and ideologies. Whose Gustav Mahler? Reception, interpretation, and history / Leon Botstein

Mahler's theater: the performative and the political in central Europe, 1890-1910 / Charles S. Maier

Mahler's Jewish parable / Talia Pecker Berio

A soldier's sweetheart's mother's tale? Mahler's gendered musical discourse / Peter Franklin

The aesthetics of mass culture: Mahler's eight symphony and its legacy / Karen Painter

pt. 2. Analysis and aesthetics. Musical lyricism as self-exploration: reflection on Mahler's "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" / Camilla Bork ; translated by Irene Zedlacher

" ... the heart wrenching sound of farewell": Mahler, Rückert, and the Kindertotenlieder / Peter Revers ; translated by Irene Zedlacher

In search of lost time: memory and Mahler's broken pastoral / Thomas Peattie

Aspects of Mahler's late style / Stephen E. Hefling

pt. 3. Mahler's American debut: the reception of the Fourth and Fifth Symphonies, 1904-1906 / edited by Zoë Lang. Introduction

Mahler's Fourth Symphony in New York

The American premier of Mahler's Fifth Symphony

Boston Symphony Orchestra

East coast tour

pt. 4. Mahler's German-language critics / edited and translated by Karen Painter and Bettina Varwig

Introduction

Mahler as conductor

The First Symphony

The Fifth Symphony

The Seventh Symphony

Das Lied von der Erde

Obituaries

The Mahler Amsterdam Festival, 1920.

Notes:

"Published in conjunction with the Bard Music Festival"--Half t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0691092435

9780691092430

0691092443

9780691092447

OCLC:

50175976

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