Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World by Norman Lebrecht

Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World

Norman Lebrecht

336 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history music challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Although Gustav Mahler was a famous conductor in Vienna and New York, the music that he wrote was condemned during his lifetime and for many years after his death in 1911. “Pages of dreary emptiness,” sniffed a leading American conductor. Yet toda...

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