Gustav Mahler (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry-Louis de La Grange
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1897-1904
- Setting: Primarily Austria
- Principal Characters: Gustav Mahler, Alma Schindler Mahler, Natalie Bauer-Lechner, Justine Mahler Rosé, Arnold Rosé, Bruno Walter
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Music or musicians, Marriage, Anti-Semitism, Composers, Orchestras or orchestral music, Conducting or conductors, Opera, operas, or operettas
- Locales: Austria
In 1897, Gustav Mahler, at the age of thirty-seven, became the director of the Vienna Court Opera, a position of unparalleled prestige in the cultural life of Europe’s musical capital. Mahler, one of the most renowned conductors of the era, was also beginning to be acknowledged as the major symphonic composer of his generation, the inheritor of a tradition that reached back to Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig von Beethoven. That Mahler, a Bohemian Jew from straitened familial circumstances, could rise to such power in a city in which anti-Semitism was the...
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