Recollections of Gustav Mahler / by Natalie Bauer-Lechner ; translated by Dika Newlin ; edited and annotated by Peter Franklin.
| Author/creator |
Bauer-Lechner, Natalie, 1858-1921 |
| Other author/creator | Newlin, Dika, 1923-2006, translator. |
| Other author/creator | Franklin, Peter, editor. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©1980. |
| Description | 250 pages, 4 pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, music, facsimiles ; 23 cm |
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| Uniform title | Erinnerungen an Gustav Mahler. English |
| Contents | Early history of my friendship with Gustav Mahler -- Part I. Mahler abroad. Visit to Budapest -- Steinbach am Attersee (July and August 1893). The andante of the Second Symphony ; The significance of Beethoven ; The symphony and life ; The mystical aspect of creation ; 'Das irdische Leben' and the 'Fischpredigt' ; The 'Rheinlegendchen' ; The work and its effect ; A conductor's tribulations ; The brutality of noise ; Brahms and Bruckner ; Evaluation of Liszt ; The greatness of Wagner ; Spiritual and physical birth -- Steinbach am Attersee (summer 1895) -- Visit to Hamburg (January 1896). The performance of the Second Symphony in Berlin ; The meaning of the Second Symphony ; Orchestral technique and notation -- In Hamburg again (mid-February 1896) -- Mahler concert in Berlin (16 March 1896). The rehearsals ; The concert ; Concern for the future -- Easter visit to Hamburg (April 1896). 'What the flowers tell me' ; Uncanny visions ; Martyrdom -- Steinbach am Attersee (summer 1896). In the 'Schnutzelputz-Hausel' ; War on the disturbers of the peace ; Early works ; Truth and simplicity ; Conversations about the Third Symphony ; On instrumentation ; Home and childhood ; Trials of strength ; Lipiner and Mahler -- Reunion in Hamburg (September/October 1896). Mahler's way of life ; Clarity of line ; The first movement of the Third Symphony ; The printing of the Second Symphony -- Trial concert in Munich (24 March 1897) -- The call to Vienna -- Mahler's personality and appearance -- Part II. Mahler in Vienna. The opera season (May to summer 1897). Debut ; An anonymous letter ; Size of the orchestra ; Der Freischutz ; Musical involvement ; Uneven tempo -- Summer 1897. Deputy director ; Natural sounds as the source of music -- The 1897-1898 season. The Ring cycle ; Dalibor ; Appointment as director ; The Magic Flute ; The claque ; 'Master in his own house' ; The Flying Dutchman ; Beating time ; 'To him that hath shall be given' ; In the director's box ; Wrong tempi: the 'Eroica' ; On tempi and a feeling for nature ; Dissatisfaction ; Dealings with one's superiors ; Das klagende Lied ; Homophony and polyphony -- The 1898-1899 season. The stage hands ; Mahler becomes conductor of the Philharmonic ; Das klagende Lied ; Performing the Beethoven quartets with orchestra ; The Norns' rope ; The first philharmonic concert ; The fifth philharmonic concert ; Wagner and Schumann ; Plan to perform the St Matthew Passion ; Beethoven's Seventh Symphony ; Mahler's Second Symphony in Vienna ; Johann Strauss -- Summer 1899 (8 June to 29 July). Mahler on his Third Symphony ; On Lowe ; On the mountaintop ; Change ; Composing ; The Fourth Symphony ; Changing one's mind ; An amusing anecdote ; Mahler's house on the Worther See ; Schwarzenfels -- The 1899-1900 season. Torments of creation ; On the 'Pastoral' ; On invention ; The living Beethoven ; Die Meistersinger ; Invention and form ; Isolation ; The problem of Beethoven's symphonies ; On tradition ; Mahler on his Second Symphony ; On Brahms and Beethoven ; The 'Pastoral' symphony: tempo of the second movement ; Marie Gutheil-Schoder -- Summer 1900 (Mayernigg, Villa Antonia, 21 June to 15 August). Hans Rott ; On Schubert ; Environmental barbarity ; From a letter of 26 July ; The mystery of art ; The incomprehensibility of nature ; The second self ; A bet ; Conversations about the Fourth Symphony ; Polyphony -- The 1900-1901 season. Mildenburg ; Mahler's First Symphony ; Beethoven's First Symphony ; Mahler's Fourth Symphony ; On mime ; Ballet ; On Bach ; Tchaikovsky's Pathetique ; Immortal -- Summer 1901 (the Mahler villa on the Worther See, June to August). In the new home ; On birdsong ; Beginning to create ; Learning and intuition ; On Schumann ; The genius of Bach ; Collecting ideas ; Plan for an opera ; Youth and maturity ; Mahler on his Fifth Symphony ; Seven songs ; 'Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen' ; Rubinstein's performance of the Beethoven sonatas -- The 1901-1902 season. 'All dynamic markings exaggerated' ; Bruno Walter ; Die drei Pintos ; Mahler's Fourth Symphony ; Hidden octaves ; Humour ; Der Trompeter von Sackingen ; Dalibor and the three greatest German opera composers ; The Tales of Hoffmann ; Liszt's Heilige Elisabeth ; Mahler's Fourth Symphony in Munich ; Performance in Frankfurt ; Performance in Berlin ; Performance in Vienna -- Appendix I. Additional material from early published extracts from Natalie Bauer-Lechner's journal -- Appendix II. Letter from Natalie Bauer-Lechner to Ludwig Karpath, 16 November 1900. |
| General note | Translation of Erinnerungen an Gustav Mahler. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 80000834 |
| ISBN | 0521235723 |
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