Gustav Mahler
Subtitle: Letters To His Wife
Contributors: Gunther Weiss (Editor); Henry-Louis De LA Grange (Editor); Knud Martner (Editor)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: October 14, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9780801443404
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Composers & musicians; Literature: Classics; Composers & Musicians - General; 1879-1964; Mahler, Alma,; Genres & Styles - Classical; Literary Collections; Biography / Autobiography; Composers & Musicians - Classical Composers; Mahler, Gustav,; Composers; Austria; Letters; Correspondence; 1860-1911
Description: "Alma Mahler-Werfel was one of the most fascinating ... of twentieth-century women. Her book Gustav Mahler: Memories and Letters (1940) includes 159 of Mahler's letters, yet only 37 of these were published in their original, unedited form." "This new edition restores the original texts, and includes a further 188 letters as well as other, hitherto unpublished documents. The letters are supplemented by commentaries..."-- BOOK JACKET.