Mahler and his world
By: edited by Karen Painter.
Contributors: Painter, Karen.; Bard Music Festival.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
Subjects: Mahler, Gustav, -- 1860-1911 -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: "Published in conjunction with the Bard Music Festival"--Half t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Context and ideologies. Whose Gustav Mahler? Reception, interpretation, and history / Leon Botstein; title: Mahler's theater: the performative and the political in central Europe, 1890-1910 / Charles S. Maier; title: Mahler's Jewish parable / Talia Pecker Berio; title: A soldier's sweetheart's mother's tale? Mahler's gendered musical discourse / Peter Franklin; title: The aesthetics of mass culture: Mahler's eighth symphony and its legacy / Karen Painter; title: pt. 2. Analysis and aesthetics. Musical lyricism as self-exploration: reflection on Mahler's "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" / Camilla Bork ; translated by Irene Zedlacher; title: "...the heart wrenching sound of farewell": Mahler, Rückert, and the Kindertotenlieder / Peter Revers ; translated by Irene Zedlacher; title: In search of lost time: memory and Mahler's broken pastoral / Thomas Peattie; title: Aspects of Mahler's late style / Stephen E. Hefling; title: pt. 3. Mahler's American debut: the reception of the Fourth and Fifth Symphonies, 1904-1906 / edited by Zoë Lang. Introduction; title: Mahler's Fourth Symphony in New York; title: The American premier of Mahler's Fifth Symphony; title: Boston Symphony Orchestra; title: East coast tour; title: pt. 4. Mahler's German-language critics / edited and translated by Karen Painter and Bettina Varwin; title: Introduction; title: Mahler as conductor; title: The First Symphony; title: The Fifth Symphony; title: The Seventh Symphony; title: Das Lied von der Erde; title: Obituaries; title: The Mahler Amsterdam Festival, 1920.