Mahler Studies

Ten innovative essays by leading experts on Mahler, spanning the full range of research.

Stephen E. Hefling (Edited by)

9780521471657, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 6 February 1997

328 pages, 20 b/w illus. 4 tables 105 music examples
23.6 x 16 x 2.3 cm, 0.595 kg

Mahler Studies comprises ten innovative essays on topics spanning the range of Mahler research. Blaukopf's inquiry into critical influences on Mahler's student years provides background for Reilly's reassessment of sources for 'Opus 1', Das klagende Lied. McClatchie introduces Mahler's previously inaccessible correspondence with family members, while Feder presents insightful psychoanalytic perspectives on Mahler's relationships to his sister Justine and other women in his life before Alma. Mitchell and La Grange explore the complex issue of quotation and allusion in Mahler's oeuvre. The long-restricted Seventh Symphony sketchbook provides detailed glimpses of that Mahlerian 'world' emerging in its earliest stages, as documented by Hefling. Issues of tonal structure and coherence are addressed by Agawu and Williamson, while Franklin on Adorno's Mahler provides a clear explication of that author's dialectic engagement with the composer.

List of plates
Preface
Acknowledgements
Bibliographic abbreviations
1. The young Mahler, 1875–1880: essay in situational analysis after Karl R. Popper Herta Blaukopf
2. Das klagende Lied reconsidered Edward R. Reilly
3. 'Liebste Justi!': the family letters of Gustav Mahler Stephen McClatchie
4. Before Alma: Gustav Mahler and 'Das Ewig-Weibliche' Stuart Feder
5. Mahler and Smetana: significant influences or accidental parallels? Donald Mitchell
6. Music about music in Mahler: reminiscences, allusions, or quotations? Henry-Louis de La Grange
7. 'Ihm in die Lieder zu blicken': Mahler's Seventh Symphony sketchbook Stephen E. Hefling
8. Prolonged counterpoint in Mahler Kofi Agawu
9. Dissonance and middleground prolongations in Mahler's later music John Williamson
10. '… his fractures are the script of truth.' - Adorno's Mahler Peter Franklin
Index.

Subject Areas: Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups [AVH]