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Gustav Mahler - Letters to His Wife (Hardcover)
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Gustav Mahler - Letters to His Wife (Hardcover)
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"Gustav Mahler and Alma Maria Schindler were married in . . . 1902.
The bride was twenty-one and a half years old, her groom a few
months short of forty-two. Apart from their substantial age
difference, it seems to have been the very disparity of their
intellectual and social backgrounds that drew them together. Mahler
was attracted to Alma by her beauty, her alert mind and emotional
intensity. Though aware that he possessed by far the broader
outlook, he trusted in Alma's ability and willingness to learn from
him." from the Introduction"Once the stiffness of unfamiliarity has
been softened by a few months of marriage, Mahler's style of
correspondence with Alma is generally simple, direct, and
astonishingly down-to-earth. In a manner akin to that of his
musical style, he spikes his language with witticisms and
double-entendres, colloquialisms and quotations from librettos and
classical works of literature." from the PrefaceThis profusely
illustrated collection of Gustav Mahler's letters to his wife Alma
is more comprehensive than any previous edition; it contains 350
letters, 188 of them until now unpublished. Since 1995, when the
German edition of this book was first published, two events have
served to expand its horizons: the publication in 1997 of the
complete text of Alma's early diaries, dating from January 1898 to
March 1902, and the publication in 2003 of a catalogue of all
Mahler letters acquired from the Moldenhauer Archives. With the aid
of this new material, the editors were also able to revise the
dates assigned to many of the letters. Commentaries and annotations
throughout the book have been corrected and expanded annotations
included. The editors' introduction provides a biographical context
for the correspondence that follows."
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