Mahler and His World

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691092443
• ISBN13: 9780691092447
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"