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Mahler; Volume One by La Grange, Henry-Louis de, 1924- is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Mahler; Volume One about?

Gustav Mahler has been called a musical prophet of doom. The passionate brooding which pervades his nine symphonies, his choral and vocal works, has led others to hail him as the artist who best articulated the inner conflicts and struggles of his neurotic and driven age. Henry-Louis de La Grange, in this huge biography, looks at the tempestuous life of this man whose impact on music--as conductor and composer--was extraordinary. There is nothing written about Mahler, no page that he himself ever wrote, no sketch of music that he ever made that M. de La Grange hasn't studied. He is as systematic a biographer as Mahler was conductor and creator of music. The result is the only definitive biography of Mahler ever written. Born in 1860, one of fourteen children of a modest Jewish innkeeper in Kalischt, Bohemia, Mahler studied at the Vienna Conservatory. Afterwards, came years of deprivation and disappointment as he served as conductor to small provincial orchestras. He moved from Kassel to Prague to Leipzig, then worked his way up in 1888 to an important post in Budapest and then in 1891 to a position in Hamburg. The book culminates in Mahler's triumphant period as the director of the

Author

La Grange, Henry-Louis de, 1924-

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

1973

Language

EN

ISBN

9780193151604

Subjects

Music, Biography, Memoir

Updated

2026-03-24