Gustav Mahler was an artist of gigantic ambitions, and Jens Malte Fischer's biography, available in English a decade after it was first published in Germany, is on a comparable scale. At 766 pages, it ...
ALMA MAHLER: OR THE ART OF BEING LOVED. Francoise Giroud. Oxford University Press. 162 pages. $21.95. English-reading audiences have waited 10 years for Henry-Louis de la Grange (of mixed ...
From a vast and mysterious opera rehearsal stage (Gustav Mahler's "home away from home" for much of his life), San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) introduces us to the ...
The last of the great middle European giants of the symphony was Gustav Mahler, a Bohemian Jew who lived most of his life in Vienna. Like Richard Wagner, whom he worshipped musically, Mahler was a ...
Merely to list her legal names is to provide a choice glimpse of Germanic culture during the last century. Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel was the daughter of Emil Schindler, a highly ...