The Cambridge Companion to Mahler

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.