Gustav Mahlers Symphonien: Entstehung - Deutung - Wirkung

GERMAN TEXT

Gustav Mahlers Symphonien: Entstehung - Deutung - Wirkung

This world of the symphony and Mahler's personality are illuminated from various angles by descriptions of his works, documents and essays as well as numerous portraits and pictorial descriptions.

‘To me, symphony means building a world with all the means of available technology,’ said Gustav Mahler in 1895.  In this book, seventeen authors have worked out the characteristics of Gustav Mahler's individual symphonies and used them to depict his musical world with its quotations, ciphers and topoi: the successive dissolution of traditional formal schemes, the incorporation of the everyday into his work and, with the ‘disintegration of Romantic art’ (Hegel), the emergence of New Music.

Each of Mahler's symphonies is dealt with in its own chapter, which consists of a portrait of Mahler and a corresponding pictorial view, a description of the work, documents and an essay.  In addition to a biography and a literary introduction to the world around 1900, other topics include Mahler's symphonic tone, the significance of folk music for his work, the development of the vocal symphony, Mahler's relationship with nature, his relationships with Strauss and Schoenberg and various aspects of Mahler's position in the Viennese intellectual life of the fin de siècle.

Renate Ulm, born in 1957, studied piano as well as musicology and theatre studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and works as an editor in the main music department of Bavarian Radio.

- Format 19,0 x 12,5 cm