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The Mahler Companion

Editat de Donald Mitchell, Andrew Nicholson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 mai 2002
The Mahler Companion consists of a collection of original essays on Mahler written especially for the occasion by Mahler specialists from around the world. It addresses all parts of his life and work - symphonies, songs and song-cycles (each of which is discussed individually), his conducting activities, compositional habits, and aesthetic development - and sets these within the cultural and political context of his time. In addition, it responds to the global spread of this remarkable composer's music, and an almost universal fascination with it, by attempting to give an account of the reception of Mahler's music in many of the countries in which it eventually came to flourish, eg. Holland, France, Japan, Russia, England, and the United States. This particular series of chapters reveals that the 'Mahler Phenomenon' earned its description principally in the years after the Second World War, but also that the Mahler revival was already well under way pre-war, perhaps especially in England and the States, and most surprisingly of all, Japan.The selection of contributors, who between them cover all Mahler's musical output, shows that here too this volume significantly crosses national boundaries. The very diverse approaches, analyses and commentaries, amply illustrated with music examples, are evidence of the uniquely rich and complex character of a music that spans more than one culture and more than one century. The volumes includes the most significant and up-to-date Mahler research and debate, and illumines some hitherto unexplored areas of Mahler's life eg. his visit to London in 1892, his sculptor daughter, Anna, and the hall in which the Seventh Symphony was first performed in Prague in 1908.It has often been claimed that Mahler, born in 1860, was in fact a prophet of much that was to come in the 20th century. His later works undeniably anticipate, often with dazzling virtuosity, many of the principal techniques and aesthetics of the new century, only the first decade of which he lived to see. Small wonder that among his earliest admirers was a collective of some of the most important and innovative composers of our time, Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. Their successors (Copland, Shostakovich, and Britten, to name a few) were to range across contrasting cultures and national frontiers.Drawing on the best resources and the most up-to-date information about the composer, this volume fulfils the need in Mahler literature for a genuinely comprehensive guide to the composer and will be the authoritative guide for Mahler enthusiasts for years to come.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199249657
ISBN-10: 0199249652
Pagini: 668
Ilustrații: numerous halftones and music examples
Dimensiuni: 190 x 246 x 37 mm
Greutate: 1.29 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

the one-stop guide to Mahler -- a volume of essays covering the widest range of Mahlerian topics, designed both for the academic and serious amateur music-lover ... The core of the compendium is its coverage of all the main works, carrying recent research, with plentiful musical examples and other illustrations.
beautifully produced volume ... a tribute that surveys the familiar with affectionate new insights ... all the articles on Mahler's reception outside Austria, both during his life and after, make for fascinating reading.
The Mahler Companion constitutes a distinguished and fitting monument to Mitchell's lifelong devotion to Mahler, and, in mustering so much talent in one volume, there is no doubt that it will deservedly take its place among the most significant publications on the composer.

Notă biografică

Dr Mitchell is a Trustee of the Britten-Pears Foundation and Chariman of the Britten Estate Ltd; Founder Professor of Music at the University of Sussex (1971 - 1976); and is currently visiting Professor at Sussex, York and King's College, London. He was awarded the Gustav Mahler Medal of Honour of the International Gustav Mahler Society in 1987, in Vienna.Dr Mitchell is Research Fellow in Romantic Studies in the Department of English, University of Bristol. His principal interest is in Byron having published several books on the poet, including Lord Byron: The Complete Miscellaneous Prose (OUP 1991).