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Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World
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Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World Paperback - 2011

by Lebrecht, Norman

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  • Title Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World
  • Author Lebrecht, Norman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Anchor
  • Date 2011-11-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ING9781400096572
  • ISBN 9781400096572 / 140009657X
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.95 x 5.18 x 1.04 in (20.19 x 13.16 x 2.64 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Biography, Austria
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Norman Lebrecht has written several best-selling works of nonfiction, including The Maestro Myth and Who Killed Classical Music? He is also the award-winning author of the novels The Song of Names and The Game of Opposites. He writes regularly for Bloomberg.com and The Wall Street Journal, and he presents The Lebrecht Interview series on BBC Radio 3 and The Record Doctor on WNYC. He lives in London.

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The Vienna of Freud, Mahler, Mach, Wittgenstein, Schnitzler, Herzl, Trotsky, and the young Hitler forged the world we know today. It was a meeting point of individualism and collectivism, egotism and idealism, the erotic and the ascetic, the elevated and the debased. At its center whirled Gustav Mahler . . . The man and his music are central to our understanding of the course of civilization and the nature of human relationships.
 
Art that is both high and low, original and derived, breathtaking and banal, Mahler’s music resists textbook analysis. It is an open-ended mind game of intellectual and ironic discourse, a voyage of discovery that combines self-revelation, consolation, and renewal . . . Each symphony is a search engine for inner truths. To know Mahler is ultimately to know ourselves.




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Media reviews

“A brisk, engaging journey through the life of a fascinating and enormously influential artist.”
—Kansas City Star

“Very enjoyable to read, gossipy as well as learned, and it makes the man come to life.”
—The Economist

“Lebrecht’s book brings Mahler scholarship into to the present by including interviews with conductors, visits to sites with Mahler connections and an excellent annotated discography.”
—The Star-Ledger
 
“Readers of Why Mahler? will be grateful to Lebrecht for his enthusiasm and for his highly personal cultural history.”
—The Wall Street Journal
 
“As a short introduction to the meaning of Mahler, this sympathetic biography will do very well.”
—The Times (London)
 
“We could not put the book down. Mahler is boss.”
—Richmond Times-Dispatch

About the author

Norman Lebrecht has written several best-selling works of nonfiction, including The Maestro Myth and Who Killed Classical Music? He is also the award-winning author of the novels The Song of Names and The Game of Opposites. He writes regularly for Bloomberg.com and The Wall Street Journal, and he presents The Lebrecht Interview series on BBC Radio 3 and The Record Doctor on WNYC. He lives in London.

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