'... a person should remain a 'person' and not be frozen into a
legend' (Alma Mahler). As a leading European conductor, and the
composer of enormous and controversial symphonies, Gustav Mahler
(1860-1911) inspired mythologisers in his own lifetime. Some of
them were personal friends, concerned to counter biased criticism
of him in which German-nationalist, hide-bound traditionalist or
anti-semitic elements were often mixed. In this 1997 biography,
Peter Franklin re-confronts the myth of Mahler the misunderstood
hero and attempts to find the person, or persons, behind the
legends: the profoundly sensitive thinker and composer, the
dictatorial conductor and husband, the iconoclast, the
traditionalist. Mahler's life and work emerge as a battle-ground
for some of the major conflicting currents and impulses of his
period, in which Empires and ideals struggled with the spectre of
their own destruction.
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