De La Grange - Gustav Mahler: Volume 3. Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion (1904-1907)

This is the third volume of de La Grange's monumental study of the life and music of Gustav Mahler, one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. Forty years of research and a vast array of documentary material are here co-ordinated into the definitive study of this supremely gifted musician. This volume, covering the years 1904-1907, shows Mahler in his final years at the Hofoper coping with the rival demands on his energy and creative powers of the Opera on the one hand and his continuing struggle for recognition as composer in his own right. It describes the tragic events of 1907, Mahlers last year in Vienna: the death of his daughter Putzi, the crisis which led him to leave the Opera, and the alarming medical diagnosis which made him cut down on much loved physical activities, at least for a time.

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CONTENTS

Fidelio
First performance of the Fifth Symphony
Second Journey to Holland
Mahler as Diplomat
The Third Symphony in Leipzig and Vienna (August-December 1904)
Mahler in Vienna (XVIII) Das Rheingold
Mahler and Viennese Society
Premiere of the Kindertotenleider
Meeting with Webern End of the Vereinigung
The Fifth in Dresden, Berlin, Prague, and Hamburg (January-March 1905)
Mahler in Vienna (XIX) Pfitzner in Vienna Die Rose vom Liebesgarten The Strasbourg Festival (March-May 1905)
Mahler in Vienna (XX) The Graz Festival
Correspondence with Cosima Wagner Completion of the Seventh Symphony
The Battle for Salome The Second Symphony in Berlin: Oskar Fried The Fifth Symphony in Trieste, Vienna, and Breslau Preparation of the Mozart Year (June-December 1905)
Mahler in Vienna (XXI) The Mozart Year Cosi fan tutte and Don Giovanni
Die Entfuhrung and Figaro The Magic Flute Antwerp and Amsterdam Concerts
Mahler and the Theatre (December 1905-April 1906)
Mahler in Vienna (XXII) Salome in Graz Premiere of the Sixth
Composition of the Eighth Salzburg Festival Mahler in his Maturity (May-August 1906)
Mahler in Vienna (XXIII) Caruso in Vienna Le Juif polonais The Barber of Seville The Taming of the Shrew The Sixth in Berlin, Munich, and Vienna The Third in Breslau and Graz (September 1906-January 1907)
Mahler in Vienna (XXIV) The Third in Berlin Encounters with Strauss
The Fourth in Frankfurt The First in Linz The press campaign against Mahler
Die Walkure and Iphigenie en Aulide Messchauert's recitals Schoenberg premieres (January-March 1907)
Mahler in Vienna (XXV) Grete Wiesenthal and La Muette de Portici
Roller and the ballet Journey to Rome Final opera productions
Mahler's resignation Putzi's death Diagnosis of heart disease (March-August 1907)
Mahler in Vienna (XXVI) Weingartner is appointed
The Vienna Opera after Mahler Opening of the new season
Journeys to Russia and Finland Farewell to Vienna (August-December 1907)
Appendices:
Catalogue of Mahler's Works
Detailed history and analysis of works composed between 1904 and 1907 (Sixth Symphony
Seventh Symphony
Eighth Symphony).
A. The Vienna Opera in Mahlers Time. Characteristics of the auditorium in 1907.
B. Repertoire of the Vienna Opera under Mahler
C. Mahlers singers at the Hofoper
D. Alfred Roller: Theatre Reform?Buhnereform?:
E. The theatrical works of Alfred Roller
Two letters of Siegried Lipiner addressed to Mahler
Analysis of Alma Mahler's handwriting
Mahler as a performer of his works
Bibliography
Index

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