Specifications
| Publisher | Faber And Faber Ltd. |
| ISBN 13 | 9780571212095 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571212093 |
| Editorial Review | "Gustav Mahler's letters to his wife have two distinct kinds of interest: as evidence in the story of a difficult and often unhappy marriage, and as a detailed, hour-by-hour account of the professional life of a great musician. . . . Mahler wrote nothing but music and letters: no essay, memoir, treatise or manifesto. From the music itself we can deduce much about his feelings for Beethoven or Wagner or Bach; but the letters, and the memoirs of others, are all we have to turn to for his explicit opinions on music. . . . The material in this book gives a large and deep picture of Mahler's personality. Just as his music is marked by shifts of register and scale, so his letters to Alma are engagingly many-voiced. . . . The fervent letters of the last year, many of them containing poems, are a record of the emotional distress bordering on madness that led Mahler to his consultation with Freud in August 1910. They are almost too painful and private to read."―Alan Hollinghurst, The Guardian, October 30, 2004 |
| About the Author | Henry-Louis de La Grange is President of the Gustav Mahler Musical Library, Paris, and the author of a four-volume biography of Mahler. Günther Weiss has published books and essays on, among others, Bartók, Pfitzner, Reger, and Strauss. Knud Martner, a Danish music researcher, is the editor of Selected Letters of Gustav Mahler. Antony Beaumont is the author of Zemlinsky and coeditor with Susanne Rode-Breymann and translator of Alma Mahler-Werfel’s Diaries 1898–1902 (both from Cornell). --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. |
| Language | English |
| Format | Paperback |
| Author | Henry-Louis De La Grange |
| Publication Date | 06/10/2005 |
| Number of Pages | 224 |
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