Karol Berger: Mahler's Symphonic World

Cover: 9780226836027 | Mahler's Symphonic World | Music for the Age of Uncertainty | Berger

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A new analysis of Mahler's symphonies, placing each within the context of his musical way of being in and experiencing the world. Between 1888 and 1909 Gustav Mahler completed nine symphonies and the orchestral song cycle Das Lied von der Erde; his tenth symphony was left incomplete at his death in 1911. Mahler's Symphonic World provocatively suggests that over his lifetime, the composer pursued a single vision and a single, ideal symphony that strived to capture his personal outlook on human existence. Writing at the turn of the twentieth century, when all trust in firm philosophical and spiritual foundations had evaporated, Mahler's music reflected a deep preoccupation with human suffering and transience and a search for sources of possible consolation. In Karol Berger's reading, each of the symphonies follows a similar trajectory, with an opening quest leading to the final unveiling of a transcendent, consolatory vision. By juxtaposing single movements--the opening Allegros, the middle movements, the Finales--across different works, Berger traces recurring plotlines and imagery and discloses the works' multiple interrelationships as well as their cohesiveness around a central idea. Ultimately, Mahler's Symphonic World locates Mahler's music within the matrix of intellectual currents that defined his epoch and offers a revelatory picture of his musical way of being in the world.

Über den Autor

Karol Berger is the Osgood Hooker Professor in Fine Arts, Emeritus in the Department of Music at Stanford University. He is an award-winning author of a number of books, most recently Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity and Beyond Reason: Wagner contra Nietzsche.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Importe , Musik
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Biographien & Monographien
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13:	9780226836027
ISBN-10:	0226836029
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Berger, Karol
Hersteller:	University of Chicago Pr.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	232 x 154 x 35 mm
Von/Mit:	Karol Berger
Erscheinungsdatum:	11.02.2025
Gewicht:	0,658 kg