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Donald Mitchell's second book on the life and work of Gustav Mahler focuses principally on Mahler's first settings of Wunderhorn texts, volumes I and II of the Lieder und Gesange; his first song-cycle... the Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; and the later settings of Wunderhorn poems. The central section of the book explores the extraordinary and often eccentric chronology of the First, Second and Third Symphonies' composition, an often minute exploration that reveals the interpenetration of song and symphony in this period of Mahler's art. Mahler emphasizes the significance for these works of imagery drawn from the famous Wunderhorn anthology, and calls attention to the ambiguous position occupied by much of Mahler's music at this time, suspended as it was between the rival claims -and forms - of symphony and symphonic poem. The final section of the book not only looks at the Fourth Symphony as a unique manifestation of the stimulus he found in the world of the Wunderhorn, but also investigates such fascinating topics as the relationship between Mahler and Berlioz, Mahler's addiction to the E flat clarinet, the influence of Bach on his later masterpieces and his famous, mobile consultation of Freud. This fresh edition of the book includes extensive corrigenda and amplifying addenda, and also makes clear that the Wunderhorn influence persisted way beyond the end of the period during which the Wunderhorn anthology was a constant source of inspiration. A further feature is the newly devised and revised bibliography which not only documents the reception of his music and the study of his life and works in the past but sets out in prodigious detail the very different circumstances which obtain in the present. In short, the growth of Mahler literature is itself a phenomenon. An exceptional item for any Mahler lover's shelf. Book jacket.続きを見る
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