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Discovering Mahler : writings on Mahler, 1955-2005

Title: Discovering Mahler : writings on Mahler, 1955-2005 / Donald Mitchell ; selected by Gastón Fournier-Facio and Richard Alston ; edited by Gastón Fournier-Facio ; co-ordinating editor Jill Burrows.
Author: Mitchell, Donald, 1925-2017.
Publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2007.

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l, 680 p. : ill., facsims., music, ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Discovering Mahler is the fourth and final volume of Donald Mitchell's unique studies of Mahler and his music. This new publication fills the remaining gaps in the scrutiny of Mahler's works in the series, principally the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Symphonies, with the Ninth and Tenth. It begins with a substantial survey of Mahler's music, commissioned for the sixth edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980), but here printed in full for the first time. A striking feature throughout this collection is the examination of the revelatory role of the performer; this is epitomized in transcripts of significant conversations about the Fifth and Seventh Symphonies with, respectively, Riccardo Chailly and Bernard Haitink. The concluding section consists of major lectures and celebratory essays, some here published for the first time in English. These form a fascinating and frequently moving personal testament to a lifetime, and specifically fifty working years, of discovering Mahler."--Publisher's website.

Alternative Title

Writings on Mahler, 1955-2005

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references, including a list of critical editions of Mahler's works (p. [650]-661) and indexes.

Contents

Preface -- Mining the archive : a fourth volume / Richard Alston -- An overview from the inside / Gastón Fournier-Facio -- A note on editorial method and acknowledgements -- Chronological list of works -- Bibliographical abbreviations -- Abschied -- Gustav Mahler -- Das klagende Lied : Mahler's 'Opus 1' -- 'Hidden treasure within' : the early songs for voice and piano and Wunderhorn-Lieder -- Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen -- Symphony no. 1 : 'the most spontaneous and daringly composed of my works' -- Mahler's Hungarian glissando -- Mahler's Second symphony : his epic journey from death to afterlife -- Mahler's Third symphony : his encounter with evolution -- 'Swallowing the programme' : Mahler's Fourth symphony -- Mahler's 'Kammermusikton' -- Eternity or nothingness? : Mahler's Fifth symphony -- New sounds, new century : a dialogue with Riccardo Chailly -- 'The only Sixth' -- Mahler on the move : his Seventh symphony -- Mahler's Seventh : a dialogue with Bernard Haitink -- On the road to the Eighth symphony : Mahler's new worlds -- Mahler's Eighth symphony : the triumph of Eros -- Das Trinklied von der Erde? -- Mahler and nature : landscape into music -- Mahler's 'Abschied' : a wrong note righted -- Dualities, contrasts, conflicts : new formal thinking in Mahler's last symphonies -- Some notes on Mahler's Tenth symphony -- Mahler : a modern in two centuries -- Gustav Mahler : prospect and retrospect -- Mahler and Smetana : significant influences or accidental parallels? -- Chailly, Mahler and the Italian connection -- The twentieth century's debt to Mahler : our debt to him in the twenty-first -- A Mahlerian odyssey : 1936-2003 -- 'Dearest Ted' -- Appendix 1. The 'correct' order of the middle movements in Mahler's Sixth symphony / Gastón Fournier-Facio -- Appendix 2. Completions of Mahler's Tenth / Gastón Fournier-Facio.

Call Number

JME 07-995

ISBN

9781843833451
184383345X

OCLC

154746638

Author

Mitchell, Donald, 1925-2017.

Title

Discovering Mahler : writings on Mahler, 1955-2005 / Donald Mitchell ; selected by Gastón Fournier-Facio and Richard Alston ; edited by Gastón Fournier-Facio ; co-ordinating editor Jill Burrows.

Imprint

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references, including a list of critical editions of Mahler's works (p. [650]-661) and indexes.

Added Author

Fournier-Facio, Gastón. Composer. Editor

Alston, Richard, 1948- Composer

Burrows, Jill. Editor

Chailly, Riccardo, 1953- Interviewee

Haitink, Bernard, 1929-2021. Interviewee

Research Call Number

JME 07-995

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