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cechang0507's review
3.0
definitely very interesting... the author firstly has dedicated like half his life to this one man, so you can hear the idolizing and near obsession (not a bad thing). occasionally the sexism spills out when he talks about alma (the author does not seem to like her). he does tend to make his perspectives on what the symphonies mean, what recordings to listen to or not, what mahler IS a fact rather than an opinion, but i'm okay with that because this is a biography written by someone, and we all read different biographies to see the different perspectives each author brings to the table. overall, pretty good first dive into mahler, who i have learned is complex, paradoxical, and a genius. i would have preferred a little more information on the timeline, because sometimes it was jumping around from the US to vienna to the hague back to the US again and i didn't know if this was a reminiscence or a chronological event, and it was narrated more of a (at times gossipy) story, but i think a more exhaustive account of this man would have exhausted ME. anyways, i'll be on my mahlerthon if anyone's looking for me.
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