Mahler's Forgotten Conductor - Heinz Unger and His Search for Jewish Meaning, 1895-1965 (Hardcover)

Heinz Unger, born in Berlin, Germany, in 1895, was reared from a young age to follow in his father's footsteps and become a lawyer. However, after attending a 1915 Munich performance of Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) conducted by Bruno Walter, Unger decided to devote the rest of his life to music and particularly to the dissemination of Gustav Mahler's music. This microhistory explores how the double strands of German and Jewish identity converged in Unger's lifelong struggle to grasp who he was. Critical to this understanding was Mahler's music - a music that Unger endowed with exceptional meaning and that was central to his Jewish identity. This book sets this exploration of Unger's "performative ritual" within a biographical tale of a life lived travelling the world in search of a home, a search that took the conductor from his native Germany to the Soviet Union, England, Spain, and, finally, Canada.

General

Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	March 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Hernan Tesler-Mabe
Dimensions:	235 x 160 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-4875-0516-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military Books > Fiction > True stories > Discovery / historical / scientific Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
LSN:	1-4875-0516-7
Barcode:	9781487505165

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