Recollections of Gustav Mahler
Natalie Bauer-Lechner
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Description for Recollections of Gustav Mahler
Paperback. Gustav Mahler is a viola player and close friend of Mahler until his marriage to Alma Schindler. She visited him in Hamburg and frequented his circle in Vienna, also accompanying him and his family on a number of the summer vacations during which the Second, Third and Fourth Symphonies came into being, together with many of the Wunderhorn songs. Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC5; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 322.
First published in English in 1980, this important early memoir of Gustav Mahler is by Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921), a viola player and close and devoted friend of Mahler until his marriage to Alma Schindler in 1902. She visited him in Hamburg and frequented his circle in Vienna, also accompanying him and his family on a number of the summer vacations during which the Second, Third and Fourth Symphonies came into being, together with many of the Wunderhorn songs.
Compiled from Bauer-Lechner's private journal, these Recollections are a vital, invaluable record of Mahler's personal, professional and creative life during ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571305209
SKU
V9780571305209
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About Natalie Bauer-Lechner
Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921) was a viola-player who is best known to musicology for having been a close and devoted friend of Gustav Mahler in the period between the break-up of her marriage in 1890 and the start of his to Alma Schindler in 1902. During this period, she kept a private journal which provides a unique picture of Mahler's personal, ... Read more
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