Gustav Mahler: New Insights into His Life, Times and Work

by Alfred Mathis-Rosenzweig

Overview

Alfred Mathis-Rosenzweig (1897-1948) was a Viennese musicologist and critic who studied at the universities of Budapest and Vienna. From 1933 he embarked on producing a large-scale study of Mahler but at the time of his death the manuscript was left unfinished. Although it was presumed lost until 1997, the unfinished typescript, written in German, had been deposited in the library of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. In 2003, the School‘s Research Centre commissioned Jeremy Barham to prepare the first published edition of this important work, and his annotations and commentary add invaluable material to his translation of this historic document. Biographical material is used as a loose framework and platform for Mathis-Rosenzweig‘s profound examination of the environment within which Mahler‘s earlier music was embedded. This is an environment in which Wagner, Bruckner and Wolf feature prominently, and in which Mahler‘s music is viewed from the wider perspective of nineteenth-century German cultural domination and the subsequent rise of political extremism in the form of Hitlerite fascism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780754653530
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/28/2007
Series:	Guildhall Research Studies Series , #5
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jeremy Barham is Lecturer in Music at the University of Surrey. His research interests include the music of Gustav Mahler; 19th- and early 20th-century music history and aesthetics, interdisciplinary and cultural studies, film studies and jazz. He is the author of numerous articles on Mahler and editor for The Cambridge Companion to Mahler (2005).

Table of Contents

Introduction; Alfred Mathis-Rosenzweig and the Provenance of the Typescript; 'Made in Germany': Mahler, Identity and Musicological Imperialism; Gustav Mahler; Foreword; Introduction and Attempt to Set Out the Problem; 1: The Bohemian Homeland Kalischt — Iglau; 2: Apprentice Years in Vienna (1875–79) and their Aftermath; 3: In the Lowlands of Day-to-Day Operatic Life (1880–83); 4: Kassel (1883–85)