Format:
1 online resource (xxv, 319 pages)
ISBN:
9781108529365
Series Statement:
Composers in context
Content:
Mahler in Context explores the institutions, artists, thinkers, cultural movements, socio-political conditions, and personal relationships that shaped Mahler's creative output. Focusing on the contexts surrounding the artist, the collection provides a sense of the complex crosscurrents against which Mahler was reacting as conductor, composer, and human being. Topics explored include his youth and training, performing career, creative activity, spiritual and philosophical influences, and his reception after his death. Together, this collection of specially commissioned essays offers a wide-ranging investigation of the ecology surrounding Mahler as a composer and a fuller appreciation of the topics that occupied his mind as he conceived his works. Readers will benefit from engagement with lesser known dimensions of Mahler's life. Through this broader contextual approach, this book will serve as a valuable and unique resource for students, scholars, and a general readership.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Dec 2020)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108423779
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108438353
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mahler in context Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021 ISBN 9781108423779
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108438353
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
Mahler, Gustav 1860-1911
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1017/9781108529365
Author information:
Youmans, Charles Dowell 1964-
