Mahler (The Master Musicians Series) - Brossura

Kennedy, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0198164807 ISBN 13: 9780198164807

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

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Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate its readers with detailed insight into the lives and work of music's geniuses. Unlike other composer biographies that focus narrowly on the music, this series ex

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Bridging the nineteenth- and the twentieth-centuries, the late-Romantic tradition and the beginnings of modernism, Mahler's music is an intimate reflection of his life and thought - and his continual self-questioning on matters of belief and the role of mankind. In this revised and enlarged edition of his Master Musicians volume, Michael Kennedy has drawn on new documentary evidence which has enabled him to give a much fuller account of Mahler's childhood and youth, and of his years as an opera conductor in Cassel, Prague, Leipzig, Budapest, Hamburg, and Vienna. All of Mahler's works are discussed and for the reprint in 2000 the author has added a new chapter covering recent research on the composer.

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• Editore: Oxford University Press, USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0198164807
• ISBN 13: 9780198164807
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 256