Category Archives: Books

Michael J Esselstrom. This volume is intended to clarify the formidable task of learning and conducting a Mahler symphony for ...

Matthew Mugmon The iconic American composer Aaron Copland is often credited with creating an unmistakably American musical style, a style ...

Alma Mahler-Werfel The original manuscript of these diaries, which present an eye-witness record of historical events in the worlds of ...

Francoise Giroud In Alma Mahler, Francoise Giroud provides a spirited portrait of one of Europe's great femme fatales, ranging from ...

Karen Monson The most beautiful girl in Vienna, she married Gustav Mahler, the composer, and conductor who held the most ...

Richard Newman Alma Rosé's tragic story, from her birth and youth in the exalted musical circles of Vienna (her father ...

  Frederic Chaslin Gustav Mahler died in 1911. At least that is what Cornelius Franz, conductor at the Vienna Opera, ...

Dika Newlin The idea of this book originally came to me during my years of study with Arnold Schoenberg in ...

Erik Ryding Bruno Walter, one of the greatest conductors in the twentieth century, lived a fascinating life in difficult times ...

Donald Mitchell Discovering Mahler is the fourth and final volume of Donald Mitchell's unique studies of Mahler and his music ...

Mary Sharratt Gustav Klimt gave Alma her first kiss. Gustav Mahler fell in love with her at first sight and ...

Arved Ashby Experiencing Mahler surveys the symphonies and major song sets of Gustav Mahler, presenting them not just as artworks ...

The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than ...

A Research and Information Guide Susan M. Filler This revised edition of Garland's 1989 publication updates the core bibliography on ...

Jens Malte Fischer A best-seller when first published in Germany in 2003, Jens Malte Fischer's Gustav Mahler has been lauded ...

Bruno Walter Conductor, composer, and writer Bruno Walter (1876–1962) worked closely with Gustav Mahler as the composer's assistant and protégé ...

Deryck Cooke This is by far and away the best short guide to Mahler's music, written expressly for music lovers ...

Edward R. Reilly In this book, Edward Reilly provides the essential documents connected with the friendship between the eminent Viennese ...

Mary H. Wagner In 1909, when the troubled New York Philharmonic Orchestra needed a leader to rejuvenate and reshape it, ...

Henry-Louis de La Grange This long-awaited revised volume I completes Henry-Louis de La Grange's four-volume English language biography of the ...

  Herny-Louis de La Grange In an age of artistic accomplishment, Gustav Mahler stood out as one of the supremely ...

  Henry-Louis de La Grange When the second volume of de La Grange's monumental study of Mahler appeared, it was ...

  Henry-Louis de La Grange When the earlier volumes of de La Grange's monumental study of Gustav Mahler appeared, they ...

Stuart Feder Crises in the life of Gustav Mahler inspired some of his greatest works?but eventually led to an early ...

  Paul Stefan Books about Composers of Music describe the lives and musical works of musicians who have created original ...

  Henry-Louis de La Grange Gustav Mahler: Letters to his Wife is undoubtedly the best way to understand Mahler as ...

Alma Mahler Written by the wife of the late Romantic composer giving an account of their day-to-day life during the ...

Donald Mitchell A monument in Mahler studies, this volume concentrates on the composer's vocal music and, in particular, on some ...

Donald Mitchell Available again for a new generation of Mahlerians, Donald Mitchell's famous study of the composer's early life and ...

Constantin Floros   Mahler's 10 symphonies and Das Lied von der Erde are intensely personal statements that have touched wide ...

Donald Mitchell A work of painstaking and imaginative scholarship presented in eminently readable language. MUSICAL QUARTERLY Mitchell has amassed and ...

  Constantin Floros With his extensive three-volume investigation, the author has newly drawn the image of Gustav Mahler for our ...

Thomas Peattie The relationship between Gustav Mahler's career as a conductor and his symphonic writing has remained largely unexplored territory ...

Lewis Thomas Profoundly and powerfully, Thomas questions the folly of nuclear weaponry, showing that the brainpower and money spent on ...

Henry-Louis de La Grange The first volume of De La Grange's massive four-volume biography of the composer Gustav Mahler, covering ...

Michael Kennedy Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate its readers with detailed insight into ...

Theodor W. Adorno Theodor W. Adorno goes beyond conventional thematic analysis to gain a more complete understanding of Mahler's music ...

Charles Youmans A rare case among history's great music contemporaries, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) and Richard Strauss (1864-1949) enjoyed a close ...

Peter Fulop This volume presents for the first time comprehensive information on all known recordings-1,168 of them-of the music of ...

Michael Gielen Vielschichtiger Blick auf Mahlers zehn Sinfonien. Der Dirigent Michael Gielen erläutert im Gespräch mit Paul Fiebig sein Bild ...

Norman Lebrecht Gustav Mahler is the most influential symphonist of the twentieth century. In this pioneering study, Norman Lebrecht reveals the ...

  Herta Blaukopf Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss came to know one another as young conductors in Leipzig in 1887 ...

Stephen E. Hefling Mahler Studies comprises ten innovative essays by leading experts on topics spanning the range of current Mahler ...

Jonathan Carr Although Gustav Mahler is seen today as one of the groundbreaking composers of the modern era, he remains ...

Stephen E. Hefling Since its premiere, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, The Song of the Earth has been widely ...

Kurt Blaukopf and Herta Blaukopf Provides a look at the composer and his philosophy, purpose, and desires. Gustav Mahler was ...

Luca S. Cristini Gustav Mahler - Austrian composer and conductor born in Kaliste in Bohemia, in 1860, and died in ...

Peter Franklin Mahler's Third Symphony was conceived as a musical picture of the natural world. This handbook describes the composition ...

(Studies In Musical Genesis, Structure, and Interpretation) James L. Zychowicz Following the earlier volumes in the Studies in Musical Genesis ...

Anna Stoll Knecht Considering each movement of the symphony through a double perspective, genetic and analytic, Stoll Knecht demonstrates how ...