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Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss : correspondence, 1888-1911 / edited with notes and an essay by Herta Blaukopf ; translated by Edmund Jephcott.

Author/creator Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911
Other author/creatorStrauss, Richard, 1864-1949.
Other author/creatorBlaukopf, Herta, 1924-2005, editor.
Other author/creatorJephcott, E. F. N., translator.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Description172 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Subject(s)
Uniform titleGustav Mahler, Richard Strauss. English
Contents Correspondence 1888-1911 -- Rivalry and friendship: an essay on the Mahler-Strauss relationship / Herta Blaukopf -- Chronologies: Mahler conducts Strauss; Strauss conducts Mahler / compiled by Knud Martner.
Abstract Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss came to know one another as young conductors in Leipzig in 1887. From then until Mahler's death in 1911--the year of the first performance of Der Rosenkavalier--they kept in touch. Mahler himself described their relationship as that of two miners tunneling from opposite directions with the hope of eventually meeting. This publication of their correspondence, which includes twenty-five previously unknown Strauss letters, offers a portrait of two men who were as antithetical in their musical means and goals as in their temperaments and personalities, but who exercised a strong fascination for one another. These sixty-three letters show both composers advancing in their careers as they battled against adverse conditions in the musical world at the turn of the century. They present Mahler's energetic support of Strauss's Symphonia Domestica, which Mahler conducted in 1904 and, in turn, Strauss's championing of Mahler's music, especially the Second and Third Symphonies. The correspondence is fully annotated and is supplemented with a major essay by Herta Blaukopf.
General noteTranslation of: Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 84008736
ISBN0226057674

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk ML410.M23 A4713 1984 ✔ Available Place Hold