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Gustav Mahler

By Bruno Walter

Book information

Publisher
Dover Publications
Year
2014
ISBN
0486492176, 9780486492179
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1672345 bytes)
Series
Dover Books on Music
Edition
reprint
Pages
161\0
Topic
Art Music
Time added
2017-06-19 02:00:18
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Description

Reprint of Greystone Press, Inc., New York, 1941 edition.Conductor, composer, and writer Bruno Walter (1876–1962) worked closely with Gustav Mahler as the composer's assistant and protégé. His revealing recollections of Mahler were written in 1936, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the composer's death. Walter first encountered Mahler more than 40 years earlier, when he served as the composer's assistant conductor in Hamburg. He worked with Mahler again at the Vienna Opera, and after the composer's death conducted the debut of the Ninth Symphony and Das Lied von der Erde.A staunch supporter of Mahler's genius and defender of his dour personality, Walter cites the pressures faced by a gifted artist striving for perfection. This edition of his tribute to his friend and mentor features supplemental materials that include a biographical sketch of Mahler as man and artist by Ernst Krenek, the composer's son-in-law and musical heir, and a new Introduction by Erik Ryding, author of Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere.

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