Mahler and His World (eBook)

Karen Painter (Herausgeber)

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2020
416 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21835-9 (ISBN)

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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, respectively, contemporary theories of memory, the theatricality of Mahler's art and fin-de-siecle politics, and the impinging confrontation with mass society. The private world of Gustav Mahler, in his songs and late works, is explored by leading Austrian musicologist Peter Revers and a German counterpart, Camilla Bork, and by the American Mahler expert Stephen Hefling. 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, edited by Zoe Lang. 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2020
• Reihe/Serie: The Bard Music Festival
• Reihe/Serie: The Bard Music Festival
• Zusatzinfo: 8 halftones.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: absolute music • Adorno, Theodor W. • Alban Berg • Aldrich, Richard • Allusion • Alma Mahler • Anti-Semitism • Anton Bruckner • Anton Webern • Arnold Schoenberg • Arthur Nikisch • Art Music • Bahr, Hermann • baritone • Beethoven, Ludwig van • Berg, Alban • Brahms, Johannes • Bruno Walter • Burgtheater • Capitalism • Central Europe • Composer • Damrosch, Walter • Das klagende Lied • Das Lied von der Erde • David Josef Bach • Debussy, Achille-Claude • Des Knaben Wunderhorn • Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Mahler) • Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg • Dika Newlin • Donald Mitchell (writer) • Elgar, Edward • ethical idealism • evocation • Faust (Goethe) • Felix Mendelssohn • folk music, Mahler and • for example • Franz Liszt • Franz Schreker • Franz Werfel • Fried, Oskar • Funeral march • gender-sensitive approach • Genre • Gericke, Wilhelm • Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde • Gilbert Kaplan • Goethe's Faust • Graf, Max • Gustav Klimt • Gustav Mahler • Hans Bethge (poet) • Hanslick, Eduard • Harvard University • Haydn, Joseph • Henry-Louis de La Grange • Hermann Bahr • Hirschfeld, Robert • Hugo Riemann • Hugo Wolf • ich bin • Ideology • Igor Stravinsky • Illustration • Israel Philharmonic • Jensen, Adolf • Jews • Johannes Brahms • Kalbeck, Max • Kindertotenlieder • Korngold, Erich Wolfgang • Leben • Leipzig • Leon Botstein • Liszt, Franz • Literature • Louis, Rudolf • Ludwig van Beethoven • Mahler, Alma (wife) • Modernism (music) • Modernity • musical composition • Music Criticism • Music Director • Music History • Music Is • musicology • narrative • Nazi Propaganda • Nazis • Nietzsche, Friedrich • obituaries of Mahler • Oboe • Opera • operetta • orchestra • Orchestration • pan-Germanism • Parody • Parsifal • Paul Bekker • Philosopher • Phrase (music) • Physiognomy • Poetry • Politics • popular music • Princeton University Press • Program music • pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky • Reinhardt, Max • Reinhold Brinkmann • Richard Strauss • Richard Wagner • Romanticism • Rudolf Louis • Schoenberg, Arnold • Schubert, Franz • Schumann • Stefan Zweig • Suggestion • Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven) • Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) • Theodor W. Adorno • Till Eulenspiegel • To Life • tonality • Veni Creator Spiritus • Vienna Philharmonic • Vienna State Opera • Walter, Bruno • Willem Mengelberg • Writing • Zeit
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21835-8 / 0691218358
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21835-9 / 9780691218359