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From the composer's lifetime to the present day, Gustav Mahler's
music has provoked extreme responses from the public and from
experts. Poised between the Romantic tradition he radically renewed
and the austere modernism whose exponents he inspired, Mahler was a
consummate public persona and yet an impassioned artist who
withdrew to his lakeside hut where he composed his vast symphonies
and intimate song cycles. His advocates have produced countless
studies of the composer's life and work. But they have focused on
analysis internal to the compositions, along with their
programmatic contexts. In this volume, musicologists and historians
turn outward to examine the broader political, social, and literary
changes reflected in Mahler's music. Peter Franklin takes up
questions of gender, Talia Pecker Berio examines the composer's
Jewish identity, and Thomas Peattie, Charles S. Maier, and Karen
Painter consider, respectively, contemporary theories of memory,
the theatricality of Mahler's art and fin-de-siècle politics, and
the impinging confrontation with mass society. The private world of
Gustav Mahler, in his songs and late works, is explored by leading
Austrian musicologist Peter Revers and a German counterpart,
Camilla Bork, and by the American Mahler expert Stephen Hefling.
Mahler's symphonies challenged Europeans and Americans to
experience music in new ways. Before his decision to move to the
United States, the composer knew of the enthusiastic response from
America's urban musical audiences. Mahler and His World
reproduces reviews of these early performances for the first time,
edited by Zoë Lang. The Mahler controversy that polarized Austrians
and Germans also unfolds through a series of documents heretofore
unavailable in English, edited by Painter and Bettina Varwig, and
the terms of the debate are examined by Leon Botstein in the
context of the late-twentieth-century Mahler revival.