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Although Gustav Mahler is seen today as one of the groundbreaking composers of the modern era, he remains widely misunderstood both as man and musician. In Mahler , Jonathan Carr reexamines Mahlers life and work through the circumstances leading to his death in 1911. The focus is on Mahlers last decade, his tempestuous marriage to the alluring Alma Schindler, his work as a "summer composer" in isolated huts in the country, his revolutionary achievements as director of the Vienna opera and his final years in America. But it sets the stage by looking into Mahlers earlier career as a talented, ambitious, and often ruthless conductor. In her memoirs Alma drew Mahler as a sickly, cerebral recluse. Arnold Schoenberg called him a "saint." Leonard Bernstein, largely responsible for the Mahler "boom" in the Sixties, found a "secret shame" at the heart of Mahlers music, "the shame of being a Jew and the shame of being ashamed." Jonathan Carr looks behind these myths, and using letters, diaries, and other material hitherto unavailable in English, he brilliantly challenges some of the most widely held assumptions about Mahler.

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Author

Carr, Jonathan

Publisher

The Overlook Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780879518875

Category

music

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.97 / 5 (53 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14