Songs of a Wayfarer and Kindertotenlieder in Full Score

by Gustav Mahler and Music Scores

Book Overview

Songs of a Wayfarer (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen), Mahler's first orchestral song cycle, is a strongly autobiographical work. Set to his own text, it is a revealing self-portrait of the young man in the agonies of love, and a work considered by many to be the masterpiece of Mahler's early period.
The folklore idioms of Songs of the Wayfarer give way to the haunting musical imagery of Mahler's later style in the Kindertotenlieder...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486263185
• ISBN13: 9780486263182
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.1" x 11.9"