Mahler in Context

✍ Scribed by Charles Youmans

• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 348
• Series: Composers in context
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Series information
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
List of
Figures
List of
Music Examples
Notes on Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgments
List of
Abbreviations
Part I Formation
Chapter 1 Family Life
Chapter 2 A Childhood in Bohemia: Early Teachers and Friends
Appendix Brief Biographies of Relevant Figures
Johann Brosch (Ian Brož)
Heinrich Fischer
Theodor Fischer
Emil Freund
Wenzel Pressburg[er]
Jakub Sladky
Josef Steiner
Franz Sturm
Joachim Jakob Unger
Franz Victorin (also František Viktorin)
Chapter 3 Music in Iglau, 1860–1875
Folk Music
Military Music
Music of Social, Sacred, and Municipal Organizations
Chapter 4 Student Culture in 1870s Vienna
The Culture of the Vienna Conservatory
The Culture of the University of Vienna
Student Organizations: The Leseverein, the Rede Klub, and the Pernerstofer Circle
Beyond the University: The Viennese Wagner Society, the Pythagoreans, and the Saga Society
Jewish Students in Vienna
Chapter 5 Viennese Musical Associates, 1875–1883
Chapter 6 Becoming a Conductor: The Early Years in Mahler's Career
First Steps: Bad Hall, 1880
From Kapellmeister to Dirigent: Laibach (1881–1882)
Frustrations and Success: Mahler in Olmütz (1883)
''I would manage my position with conscientiousness and diligence'': Kassel (1883–1885)
Chapter 7 Between ''Thrice Homeless'' and ''To the Germans in Austria'': Political Conditions in Mahler's Europe
Part II Performance
Chapter 8 Operatic and Orchestral Repertoire
Operatic Repertoire in Hamburg
Operatic Repertoire in Vienna
Orchestral Repertoire
Chapter 9 Collaborators
Chapter 10 A Perfect Storm: Mahler's New York
Chapter 11 Celebrity
Part III Creation
Chapter 12 The Composer ''Goes to Press'': Mahler's Dealings with Engravers and Publishers in Vienna around 1900
Chapter 13 Mahler and Program Music
Chapter 14 Intertextuality in Mahler
Chapter 15 The Symphony, 1870–1911
1870–1889
1889–1914
Chapter 16 Mahler and the Visual Arts of His Time
A Difficult Relationship?
Wanderjahre (Journeyman's Travels)
Return to Vienna: Competing Currents
Mahler and the Secession
''Moneymental Style''
Chapter 17 Mahler and Modernism
Chapter 18 Reception in Vienna
''Gustav Mahler was a saint''
''You lift us up to the godliness for which we long''
''... to go in search of home''
Chapter 19 Mahler's Press from London to Los Angeles
Mahler's Reception in England (1892–1911)
Coverage in California
Negative Strategies in the New York Press (1910–1911)
Part IV Mind, Body, Spirit
Chapter 20 Organized Religion
Judaism
Christianity
Kunstreligion
Conclusion
Chapter 21 German Idealism
Chapter 22 Nietzsche
Chapter 23 Fechner
Fechner's Life and Work
Fechner's Solution to the Mind–Body Problem
The Day View over the Night View
The Reception of Fechner's Work
Chapter 24 Literary Enthusiasms
Literary Settings
Literary References and Absences
Chapter 25 Romantic Relationships
Chapter 26 Mahler and Death
Part V Influence
Chapter 27 Posthumous Reputation, 1911 to World War II
Chapter 28 Mahler and the Second Viennese School
Chapter 29 The Mahler Revival
Mahler Discography
Centenary Lectures and Publications
The Mahler Gesamtausgabe
Conclusion
Chapter 30 Broader Musical Influence
Copland
Britten
Shostakovich, Schnittke, and Silvestrov
After Copland
Berio and Nono
Boulez
Davies, Finnissy, and Harvey
Chapter 31 Adorno
Chapter 32 Influences in Literature
Composers in Literature around 1900
Death Maketh the Mann
A Demonic Aura
Mahler's Eleventh
Musical-Literary Parallels?
Chapter 33 Mahler on Disc
Introduction
The ''Second Nature'' of the Recorded Work
The 78s
The 1950s: New Economics, New Recordings
The Birth of the Recorded Mahler Cycle
Chapter 34 Film and Recent Popular Culture
Further Reading
1 Family Life
2 A Childhood in Bohemia
3 Music in Iglau, 1860–1875
4 Student Culture in 1870s Vienna
5 Viennese Musical Associates, 1875–1883
6 Becoming a Conductor
7 Between ''Thrice Homeless'' and ''To the Germans in Austria''
8 Operatic and Orchestral Repertoire
9 Collaborators
10 A Perfect Storm
11 Celebrity
12 The Composer ''Goes to Press''
13 Mahler and Program Music
14 Intertextuality in Mahler
15 The Symphony, 1870–1911
16 Mahler and the Visual Arts of His Time
17 Mahler and Modernism
18 Reception in Vienna
19 Mahler's Press from London to Los Angeles
20 Organized Religion
21 German Idealism
22 Nietzsche
23 Fechner
24 Literary Enthusiasms
25 Romantic Relationships
26 Mahler and Death
27 Posthumous Reputation, 1911 to World War II
28 Mahler and the Second Viennese School
29 The Mahler Revival
30 Broader Musical Influence
31 Adorno
32 Influences in Literature
33 Mahler on Disc
34 Film and Recent Popular Culture
Index