After Mahler: Britten, Weill, Henze and Romantic Redemption

by Stephen Downes

Book Overview

Gustav Mahler is often thought of as one of the last of the Romantic composers and, as a result his influence on the development of twentieth-century music has been little explored. In this ground-breaking study, Stephen Downes shows that Mahler's music was in fact greatly admired by major composers Benjamin Britten, Kurt Weill and Hans Werner Henze. Despite their initial admiration being notably dissonant with the prevailing Zeitgeist - Britten in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107008719
• ISBN13: 9781107008717
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.9" x 9.8"