The Cambridge Companion to Mahler
- Editor: Barham, Jeremy
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Contents
- Chronology:
- Introduction Marginalia on Mahler today Jeremy Barham;
- Part I . Cultural Contexts:
- 1. Socio-political landscapes: reception and biography Peter Franklin;
- 2. The literary and philosophical worlds of Gustav Mahler Morten Solvik;
- 3. Music and aesthetics Vera Micznik;
- Part II . Mahler the Creative Musician:
- 4. Juvenilia and early works: from the first song fragments to Das klagende Lied Jeremy Barham;
- 5. Song and symphony (I). Lieder und Gesange Vol.1, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and the First Symphony: compositional patterns for the future Zoltan Roman;
- 6. Song and song-symphony (I). Des Knaben Wunderhorn and the Second, Third and Fourth Symphonies: music of heaven and earth Peter Revers;
- 7. Song and symphony (II). From Wunderhorn to Ruckert and the middle-period symphonies: vocal and instrumental works for a new century Stephen E. Hefling;
- 8. The 'greatest' and the 'most personal': the Eighth Symphony and Das Lied von der Erde Christian Wildhagen;
- 9. The last works Joerg Rothkamm;
- Part III . Mahler the Re-creative Musician:
- 10. Mahler as conductor in the opera house and concert hall Herta Blaukopf;
- 11. Arrangements and Retuschen - Mahler and Werktreue David Pickett;
- Part IV . Reception and Performance:
- 12. Issues in Mahler reception: historicism and misreadings after 1960 Christoph Metzger;
- 13. The history of the International Gustav Mahler Society in Vienna and the complete critical edition Reinhold Kubik;
- 14. Musical languages of love and death: Mahler's compositional legacy Stephen Downes;
- 15. Mahler conducted and recorded: from the concert hall to DVD Lewis M. Smoley;
- 16. New research paths in criticism, analysis and interpretation John Williamson; Appendix.