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Introduction: marginalia on Mahler today / Jeremy Barham -- Socio-politcal landscapes: reception and biography / Peter Franklin -- The literary and philosophical worlds of Gustav Mahler / Morten Solvik -- Music and aesthetics: the programmatic issues / Vera Micznik -- Juvenilia and early works: from the first song fragments to Das klagende lied / Jeremy Barham -- Song and symphony (I). Lieder und gesänge volume 1, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and the First symphony: compositional patterns for the future / Zoltan Roman -- Song and song-symphony (I). Des knaben wunderhorn and the Second, Third and Fourth symphonies: music of heaven and earth / Peter Revers -- Song and symphony (II). From Wunderhorn to Rückert and the middle-period symphonies: vocal and instrumental works for a new century / Stephen E. Hefling -- The 'greatest' and the 'most personal': the Eighth symphony and Das lied von der erde / Christian Wildhagen -- The last works / Jörg Rothkamm -- Mahler as conductor in the opera house and concert hall / Herta Blaukopf -- Arrangements and Retuschen: Mahler and Werktreue / David Pickett -- Issues in Mahler reception: historicism and misreadings after 1960 / Christoph Metzger -- The history of the International Gustav Mahler Society in Vienna and the Complete critical edition / Reinhold Kubik -- Musical languages of love and death: Mahler's compositional legacy / Stephen Downes -- Mahler conducted and recorded: from the concert hall to DVD / Lewis M. Smoley -- New research paths in criticism, analysis and interpretation / John Williamson. |
