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Mahler's Symphonic World: Music for the Age of Uncertainty

Mahler's Symphonic World: Music for the Age of Uncertainty

Karol Berger; University of Chicago Press; Hardback

Gustav Mahler completed nine symphonies, with a tenth left incomplete at his death in 1911. This book provocatively suggests that over his lifetime, the composer pursued a single ideal symphony that strove to capture his personal outlook on human existence.

By juxtaposing single movements across different works, the author traces recurring plotlines and imagery and discloses the works’ multiple inter-relationships as well as their cohesiveness around a central idea.

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