Gustav Mahler: The Wunderhorn Years: Chronicles and Commentaries

Donald Mitchell's second book on the life and work of Gustav Mahler examines the fruitful years of the First to the Fourth Symphonies, as well as the earlier song cycles from the Gesellen lieder to the magical Ruckert songs.

A work of painstaking and imaginative scholarship presented in eminently readable language. MUSICAL QUARTERLY
Mitchell has amassed and processed an imposing amount of material, most of it new... It includes a section on Mahler and Freud, discusses Bach's influence on Mah...