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Mahler and Strauss - In Dialogue (Hardcover)
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Mahler and Strauss - In Dialogue (Hardcover)
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A rare case among history's great music contemporaries, Gustav
Mahler (1860-1911) and Richard Strauss (1864-1949) enjoyed a close
friendship until Mahler's death in 1911. Unlike similar musical
pairs (Bach and Handel, Haydn and Mozart, Schoenberg and
Stravinsky), these two composers may have disagreed on the matters
of musical taste and social comportment, but deeply respected one
another's artistic talents, freely exchanging advice from the
earliest days of professional apprenticeship through the security
and aggravations of artistic fame. Using a wealth of documentary
material, this book reconstructs the 24-year relationship between
Mahler and Strauss through collage-"a meaning that arises from
fragments," to borrow Adorno's characterization of Mahler's Sixth
Symphony. Fourteen different topics, all of central importance to
the life and work of the two composers, provide distinct vantage
points from which to view both the professional and personal
relationships. Some address musical concerns: Wagnerism, program
music, intertextuality, and the craft of conducting. Others treat
the connection of music to related disciplines (philosophy,
literature), or to matters relevant to artists in general
(autobiography, irony). And the most intimate dimensions of
life-childhood, marriage, personal character-are the most
extensively and colorfully documented, offering an abundance of
comparative material. This integrated look at Mahler and Strauss
discloses provocative revelations about the two greatest western
composers at the turn of the 20th century.
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