Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World Hardcover - 2010
by Norman Lebrecht
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- Title Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World
- Author Norman Lebrecht
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 326
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Pantheon Books, NY,NY
- Date 2010-10-12
- ISBN 9780375423819 / 0375423818
- Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.4 x 6.52 x 1.25 in (23.88 x 16.56 x 3.18 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Mahler, Gustav, Composers - Austria
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010006034
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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The Vienna of Freud, Mahler, Mach, Wittgenstein, Schnitzler, Herzl, Trotsky, and the young Hitler forged the world we know today. It was a meeting point of individualism and collectivism, egotism and idealism, the erotic and the ascetic, the elevated and the debased. At its center whirled Gustav Mahler . . . The man and his music are central to our understanding of the course of civilization and the nature of human relationships.
Art that is both high and low, original and derived, breathtaking and banal, Mahler’s music resists textbook analysis. It is an open-ended mind game of intellectual and ironic discourse, a voyage of discovery that combines self-revelation, consolation, and renewal . . . Each symphony is a search engine for inner truths. To know Mahler is ultimately to know ourselves.
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