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Why Mahler? : how one man and ten symphonies changed our world / Norman Lebrecht.

By: Lebrecht, Norman, 1948- [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Faber and Faber Ltd., 2011Copyright date: ©2011Description: xvii, 362 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780571260799 (paperback) .Subject(s): Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911 | Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911. Symphonies -- History and criticism | Composers -- Austria -- BiographyDDC classification: 780.92 MAH
Contents:
Part I: Desperately seeking Mahler -- Why Mahler?: some frequently asked questions -- Part II: Who is Mahler?: the life and times. Living in a nowhere land (1860-1875) ; City of dreams (1875-1887) ; A symphony like the world (1887-1891) ; Rise again (1891-1894) ; What love tells me (1895-1897) ; A taste of power (1897-1900) ; The most beautiful girl in Vienna (1901) ; Small interludes of happiness (1902-1906) ; Three hammer blows (1907) ; Discovering America (1907-1910) ; "To live for you, to die for you" (1910-1911) ; After Mahler (1911-2010) -- Part III: Whose Mahler? : a question of interpretation -- Part IV: How to Mahler: finding the key to a private space.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending 780.92 MAH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00235974
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A fascinating celebration of one of the most important classical composers, and one of the most enduringly popular, now in papberback.

Bibliography: (pages 329-338) and index.

Part I: Desperately seeking Mahler -- Why Mahler?: some frequently asked questions -- Part II: Who is Mahler?: the life and times. Living in a nowhere land (1860-1875) ; City of dreams (1875-1887) ; A symphony like the world (1887-1891) ; Rise again (1891-1894) ; What love tells me (1895-1897) ; A taste of power (1897-1900) ; The most beautiful girl in Vienna (1901) ; Small interludes of happiness (1902-1906) ; Three hammer blows (1907) ; Discovering America (1907-1910) ; "To live for you, to die for you" (1910-1911) ; After Mahler (1911-2010) -- Part III: Whose Mahler? : a question of interpretation -- Part IV: How to Mahler: finding the key to a private space.

Alan Cutts Collection.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Norman Lebrecht is the author of nine books on music, including The Maestro Myth and The Companion to Twentieth-Century Music. He lives in London with his family.

(Bowker Author Biography)