The Life of Mahler (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521461993)

As a leading European conductor and the composer of enormous and controversial symphonies, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) inspired mythologizers in his own lifetime. Some of them were personal friends, concerned with countering biased criticism of him in which German-nationalist, hide-bound traditionalist or anti-Semitic elements were often mixed. In this new biography, Peter Franklin reconfronts the myth of Mahler-the-misunderstood-hero and attempts to find the person, or persons, behind the legends. His illuminating biography shows Mahler to be a profoundly sensitive thinker and composer, a dictatorial conductor and husband, an iconoclast and paradoxically, a traditionalist.

Author: Peter Franklin
ISBN-10: 0521461995
ISBN-13: 9780521461993
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/24/1997
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.79h x 5.72w x 0.82d