Gustav mahler biography pdf directory

Rev., enl., and updated translation of the French ed. published in 3 v.: Paris : Fayard, c1979-c1984

Includes bibliographical references and index

Gustav Mahler was one of the supremely gifted musicians of his generation.

His contemporaries came to know him as a composer of startling originality whose greatest successes with the public never failed to provoke controversy among the critics.

Gustav mahler biography and works

As a conductor, his relentless pursuit of perfection was sometimes viewed as tyrannical by the singers and musicians who came under his baton. Professor Henry-Louis de La Grange has devoted more than thirty years of painstaking research to this study of Mahler's life and works.

His biography, ultimately to be completed in four volumes, is drawn from a vast archive of documents, autographs, and pictures, assembled by La Grange at the Bibliotheque musicale Gustav Mahler, Paris

This second volume covers the years 1897-1904, when the focus shifts to Vienna.

It opens with Mahler's t