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Gustav Mahler's Mental World
With his extensive three-volume investigation, the author has newly drawn the image of Gustav Mahler for our time. Should Mahler's symphonies really be categorized as …
Gustav Mahler. Visionary and Despot
With the terms visionary and despot, the author seeks to circumscribe the multilayered personality of Gustav Mahler. Opening up a terra incognita, he draws a comprehensive map of …
Humanism, Love and Music
Music is no mere play of sound, no mere tonal texture, but has a significant psychic, spiritual/intellectual and social dimension. In other words: a musical art work is not merely …
Gustav Mahler and the Symphony of the 19th Century
The subject of this book is the semantics of symphonic music from Beethoven to Mahler. Of fundamental importance is the realization that this music is imbued with non-musical, …
Gyoergy Ligeti
This monograph is an authoritative study of the A uvre of one of the most important composers of our time. For the first time, Ligeti's key works are presented in the context of …
New Ears for New Music
20th-century music is characterized by a bewildering multitude of trends and movements. Often several movements co-exist in contradiction to each other, in a reflection of the …
Brahms and Bruckner as Artistic Antipodes
In the last third of the 19th century Brahms and Bruckner were regarded as antipodes. Is this perception really true to the historical reality or had their contemporaries …
Beethoven's Eroica
With this study the author opened up a previously locked door of Beethoven research (Martin Geck). The book presents conclusive answers to questions that had occupied critics for …
Anton Bruckner
While unappreciated and controversial during most of his life, Anton Bruckner is today regarded as the greatest symphonist between Beethoven and Gustav Mahler - in terms of …
Listening and Understanding
To grasp music in its depth dimension is an art that can be learned and perfected. Categories of formal analysis here play a subordinate role - at least as important it is to be …
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky remains to this day one of the most-performed Russian composers. Based on recent studies and source editions, this book demonstrates the close …
Alban Berg
The central point of this book is the realization that the creative work of Alban Berg, which in recent years has moved to the forefront of scholarly interest, is largely rooted in …