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Gustav Mahler was one of the supremely gifted musicians of his generation. His contemporaries came to know him as a composer of startling originality whose greatest successes with the public never failed to provoke controversy among the critics. As a conductor, his relentless pursuit of perfection was sometimes viewed as tyrannical by the singers and musicians who came under his baton. Professor Henry-Louis de La Grange has devoted over thirty years of painstaking resarch to this study of Mahler's life and works. His biography, ultimately to be completed in four volumes, is drawn from a vast archive of documents, autographs, and pictures, assembled by La Grange at the Bibliotheque Musicale Gustav Mahler, Paris. This second volume covers the years 1897-1904, when the focus shifts to Vienna. It opens with Mahler's triumphant debut as director of the Vienna Court Opera, and follows with the revolution he wrought there in standards of performance and, with the Secession painter Alfred Roller, in scenic representation. An account is also given of Mahler's story and brief engagement as conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Concerts, following Richter's resignation in 1989. La Grange depicts the brilliant society of pre-war Vienna, then the centre of the intellectual and artistic world; the extraordinary range of artists among whom Mahler lived and worked included the composers Dvorak, Gustave Charpentier, Richard Strauss, Zemlinsky, and Schoenberg and his two disciples, Berg and Webern; the painters architects and decorators of the Secession with Klmit at their head; the writers Hauptmann, Dehmel, Hofmannsthal, and Schnitzler. There he also met Alma Schindler, 'the most beautiful woman in Vienna', and La Grange tells the story of their engagement and marriage in 1902 and the early years of their tempestuous relationship. As his fame spread throughout Europe, Mahler travelled with his music to Germany, Russia, Holland, Poland, and Belguim, meeting many other leading musicians of his day, including Pfitzner, Mengelberg, Diepenbrock, Oskar Fried, and many others. During this period Mahler wrote some of his best-loved works, including the fourth and Fifth Symphonies, and the three orchestral song-cyles and collections - the Wunderhorn -, Ruckert-, and Kindertotenlieder. For each of these works La Grange provides full notes and analytical descriptions. Scrupulously researched, richly documented, this is a study worthy of the extraordinary artistic achievement of Gustav Mahler's Vienna years.
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President of the Bibliothèque musicale Gustav Mahler in Paris, Henry-Louis de La Grange is Chevalier of the Order of the Légion d'honneur, and Officier of the Ordre du Merite.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
It is difficult to imagine how there can be any further or better life of the composer after de la Grange's superb work, combining as it does the highest standards of scholarship with first rate musical judgements on the composer's works. One becomes impatient for the publication of the remaining volumes in English.Illustrations are well chosen and there is a useful map and a diagram of Mahler's apartment in Vienna, features typical of the completeness of the author's approach. The price is very reasonable for such a large volume. All Mahlerians are indebted to Mr de la Grange for this magisterial work
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
This is really a review of Volume 1 of this utterly wonderful biography...but of course, as it stands, Volume 1, from a different publisher, also includes a huge hunk of this, Volume 2...so if you already have the original Volume 1 but want to read from 1902 to 1904, you have to shell out here around 60 quid for 200 pages (and a few extra photos). And the revised Volume 1, according to the publishers, whom I recently contacted, is nowhere in sight in terms of publication.
As I say, however, this is the most marvellous, enthralling, page-turning biography of this dynamic, witty, embattled composer, and it's just a shame it's had such a tormented publishing history. It deserves to be in print constantly, and completely. And I shall damn well expect a free copy of the revised Volume 1 when, if, it does surface.
As I say, however, this is the most marvellous, enthralling, page-turning biography of this dynamic, witty, embattled composer, and it's just a shame it's had such a tormented publishing history. It deserves to be in print constantly, and completely. And I shall damn well expect a free copy of the revised Volume 1 when, if, it does surface.
I am an admirer of Mahller music and decided to learn more about the man. La Grange biography of Mahler is for sure the right and complete source and although heavy(in all senses...)it is of easy reading. I have all volumes except for vol I which I understand is not available. I am still reading volume II, and due to the amount of details I feel like living in Vienna those days! It is like a film! Participating in all intrigues of musical life of those days. The man was a perfectionist and ready to make enemies all along! In summary this biografy is vivid and you can feel and have an understanding of the man and of his time. It may take me an additional year or two to read it all through, but I certainly will enjoy it. Do anybody has any used copy of volume I?
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