Mahler's heavenly retreats
Subtitle: encounters with the master's 'composing houses'
By: Keith James Clarke
Publisher: Oblique Angle Publishing
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 58
ISBN-13: 9780955408007
Subjects: Homes and haunts; Musical landmarks; Homes; Ferienhaus
Description: Keith James Clarke, the architect who also has a passion for the music of Mahler used "archive photographs and measured surveys to create a set of architectural drawings that uniquely describe key buildings and the sites they occupy where Mahler composed. Crucially, the drawings recreate the environment Mahler knew during his day - not as it is today. With the aid of these drawings I use my expert knowledge of the notion of 'place' - the morphology of sites and my understanding of space - to evaluate key places in Mahler's life, the reasons for their importance and their associations with his music. In this book, a series of architectural, philosophical, environmental, aural, contextual, experiential, aesthetic and practical considerations reveal the roots of Mahler's inspiration."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Genius loci; title: Mahler's life and times; title: The enchanted cottage; title: Private dreams perched on high; title: Resting lightly on the earth's crust; title: Mahler, places he loved and his inspiration; title: Details of buildings; title: Comparative assessment; title: Mahler's composing houses : key features.