Mitchell & Nicholson - The Mahler Companion

A brilliant gathering of international Mahler specialists write about Mahler's music from a variety of standpoints. The global spread of the authors is matched by a series of chapters that document the global spread of the composer's own symphonies and song cycles, while hitherto unexplored areas of research receive attention, both places (such as London and Prague) and people (Mahler's only surviving and highly talented daughter--a sculptor--Anna. In short, a volume that draws on the best resources and most up-to-date information about the composer and will undoubtedly act as the authoritative guide for Mahler enthusiasts for years to come.

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CONTENTS

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction - Andrew Nicholson
1. Leon Botstein: Gustav Mahler's Vienna
2. John Williamson: The Earliest Completed Works: A Voyage towards the First Symphony
3. Paul Hamburger: Mahler and Des Knaben Wunderhorn
4. Edward Reilly: Todtenfeier and the Second Symphony
5. Morten Solvik: Mahler and Germany
6. Henry-Louis de La Grange: Mahler and France
7. Gerard Pesson: Mahler and Debussy: Transcendence and Emotion
8. Peter Franklin: A Stranger's Story: Programmes, Politics, and Mahler's Third Symphony
9. Donald Mitchell: 'Swallowing the Programme': Mahler's Fourth Symphony
10. Donald Mitchell: Mahler's 'Kammermusikton'
11. Donald Mitchell: Eternity or Nothingness? Mahler's Fifth Symphony
12. Eveline Nikkels: Mahler and Holland
13. Stephen E. Hefling: The Ruckert Lieder
14. David Matthews: The Sixth Symphony
15. Peter Revers: The Seventh Symphony
16. Donald Mitchell: Mahler in Prague (1908)
17. John Williamson: The Eighth Symphony
18. Edward R. Reilly: Mahler in America
19. Stephen E. Heffling: Das Lied von der Erde
20. Stephen E. Heffling: The Ninth Symphony
21. Colin Matthews: The Tenth Symphony
22. David Matthews: Wagner, Lipiner, and the 'Purgatorio'
23. Inna Barsova: Mahler and Russia
24. Kenji Aoyagi: Mahler and Japan
25. Andrew Nicholson: Mahler in London in 1892
26. Donald Mitchell: The Mahler Renaissance in England: Its Origins and Chronology
27. Wilfrid Mellors: Mahler and the Great Tradition: Then and Now
EpilogueAlbrecht Joseph, Marina Mahler, and Donald Mitchell: Mahler's Smile: A Memoir of his Daughter Anna Mahler (1904 - 1988)
Select Bibliography
Index