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Gustav Mahler: Letters to his Wife (Paperback, Main)
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Gustav Mahler: Letters to his Wife (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R356
Discovery Miles 3 560
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Alma Mahler-Werfel was one of the most fascinating and ambivalent
of twentieth-century women. Her book "Gustav Mahler: Memories and
Letters" (1940) includes 159 of Mahler's letters, yet only 37 of
these were published in their original, unedited form. Alma's
omissions, abridgements and alterations were all part of the
legend, and reveal that it was her intention to present herself in
as flattering a light as possible. This new edition restores the
original texts, and includes a further 188 letters as well as
other, hitherto unpublished documents. The letters are supplemented
by commentaries, which provide background information about the
people and events mentioned in them, and help place the letters in
their cultural and historical context. These documents depict a
close and sometimes explosive relationship between two people of
widely differing background, character and temperament. The Mahler
that emerges from these authentic, unabridged sources is warmer and
more touchingly human than the figure as presented by Alma in her
expurgated selection of Memories and Letters.
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