Mahler in Context - Composers in Context

Mahler in Context explores the institutions, artists, thinkers, cultural movements, socio-political conditions, and personal relationships that shaped Mahler's creative output. Focusing on the contexts surrounding the artist, the collection provides a sense of the complex crosscurrents against which Mahler was reacting as conductor, composer, and human being. Topics explored include his youth and training, performing career, creative activity, spiritual and philosophical influences, and his reception after his death. Together, this collection of specially commissioned essays offers a wide-ranging investigation of the ecology surrounding Mahler as a composer and a fuller appreciation of the topics that occupied his mind as he conceived his works. Readers will benefit from engagement with lesser known dimensions of Mahler's life. Through this broader contextual approach, this book will serve as a valuable and unique resource for students, scholars, and a general readership.

Product details

• Assisted by: Charles Youmans (Editor), Youmans Charles (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.2022
• EAN: 9781108438353
• ISBN: 978-1-108-43835-3
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Print on Demand; Composers in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, 20th Century, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Romanticism, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Romantic Music (C 1830 To C 1900), Art music, orchestral and formal music