Gustav Mahler, Henry-louis De La Grange, Bio 4 Vol, Inglés

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"Gustav Mahler", la más completa y exhaustiva biografía y análisis del icónico músico y su obra, escrita por Henry-Louis de La Grange, en sus 4 volúmenes completos, edición de lujo con tapas duras, en inglés. Son 4743 páginas en total.

El Volumen 1 es el original que fue editado por Doubleday en 1973, con 987 páginas, y aún no ha sido re-editado por Oxford.
El Volumen 2 es la versión revisada editada por Oxford University Press de 1995, con 944 páginas.
El Volumen 3 es la versión revisada editada por Oxford University Press de 1999, con 1054 páginas.
El Volumen 4 es la versión revisada editada por Oxford University Press de 2008, con 1758 páginas.

Varios de los volúmenes están permanentemente agotados y no se consiguen.
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SOBRE EL LIBRO:

-- VOLUME 1 (1973, Doubleday, 987 p):

Gustav Mahler has been called a musical prophet of doom. The passionate brooding which pervades his nine symphonies, his choral and vocal works, has led others to hail him as the artist who best articulated the inner conflicts and struggles of his neurotic and driven age.

Henry-Louis de La Grange, in this huge biography, looks at the tempestuous life of this man whose impact on music--as conductor and composer--was extraordinary. There is nothing written about Mahler, no page that he himself ever wrote, no sketch of music that he ever made that M. de La Grange hasn't studied. He is as systematic a biographer as Mahler was conductor and creator of music. The result is the only definitive biography of Mahler ever written.

Born in 1860, one of fourteen children of a modest Jewish innkeeper in Kalischt, Bohemia, Mahler studied at the Vienna Conservatory. Afterwards, came years of deprivation and disappointment as he served as conductor to small provincial orchestras. He moved from Kassel to Prague to Leipzig, then worked his way up in 1888 to an important post in Budapest and then in 1891 to a position in Hamburg. The book culminates in Mahler's triumphant period as the director of the Vienna Opera House. The present volume culminates in Mahler's triumphant period as the director of the Vienna Opera House. The present volume takes up to meeting with Alma Mahler.

Throughout, Mahler is revealed as an often difficult man, full of complexities and contradictions, insecurities and surprises. Always in sharp focus is the picture of Mahler, the perfectionist, tirelessly pursuing his art, often ignoring family and friends, relentlessly battling anyone who stood in the way of his music. Performers stormed off the stage during rehearsals with the "tyrant." Audiences walked out on the "revolutionary" interpretation of the classics. And anti-Semitic critics denounced him as that "Jewish conductor."

The whole turbulent cultural ferment of the era is reflected in this book and the author has provided extraordinary thumbnail sketches of some of the giants of the time: Bruckner, Brahams, Strauss, and the conductor Bruno Walter, among others.

-- VOLUME 2 (1995, Oxford University Press, 944 p):

In an age of artistic accomplishment, Gustav Mahler stood out as one of the supremely gifted musicians of his generation. As a composer, he won acclaim for his startling originality. As a conductor, his relentless pursuit of perfection was sometimes seen as tyrannical by the singers and musicians who came under his baton. And always, even with his greatest triumphs, he provoked controversy among the critics. Now Henry-Louis de La Grange, Mahler's celebrated biographer, offers new insight into Mahler's life and work with his latest look at the career of this musical genius.

In Mahler in Vienna, La Grange follows the great musician to the intellectual and artistic capital of turn-of-the-century Europe. From Mahler's spectacular debut as director of the Vienna Court Opera to his triumphant tour of the continent, we see him at the height of his powers. La Grange vividly portrays the marvelous spectacle, including the extraordinary range of artists who worked with Mahler--the composers Dvorak, Gustave Charpentier, Richard Strauss, Zemlinsky, and Schoenberg; the painters, architects, and decorators of the Secession (led by Klimt); and the writers Hauptmann, Dehmel, Hofmannsthal, and Schnitzler. In Vienna, the conductor worked a revolution in standards of performance and (along with Secession painter Alfred Roller) scenic illustration. It was also during this period that he wrote some of his best-loved symphonies--including his Fourth and Fifth--and his three orchestral song-cycles and collections, the Wunderhorn-, Ruckert-, and Kindertotenlieder. For each of
these works La Grange provides full notes and analytic descriptions. And the author does not neglect Mahler's temptestuous personal life, for during these years he met Alma Schindler--"the most beautiful woman in Vienna." La Grange deftly captures the story of their engagement and marriage in 1902.

Mahler remains one of the greatest figures in the history f music, a man whose work provokes strong reactions today as in his own time. This account is just one part of the definitive four-volume biography Gustav Mahler, the result of a thirty-year research project; the author has personally translated it from his original French into English. Scrupulously researched and insightfully written, this volume is a brilliant account of a critical epoch in Mahler's life.

-- VOLUME 3 (1999, Oxford University Press, 1054 p):

When the second volume of de La Grange's monumental study of Mahler appeared, it was hailed in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and many other publications as an indispensable portrait of the great composer. Here at last is the third volume of this magisterial work.

Ranging from 1904 to 1907, it explores Mahler's final years as administrator, producer, and conductor of the Vienna Opera. It was a time of intense inner struggle, with Mahler's energy and creative powers drained by the competing demands of running the Hofoper and struggling for recognition as a composer. And they were tragic years as well, especially 1907, Mahler's last year in Vienna, when the death of his daughter and the diagnosis of heart disease forced him to leave the Opera. Throughout the book, de La Grange offers true-to-life portraits of Mahler the human being, the family man, and the composer, and he weaves in innumerable testimonies and anecdotes that throw new light on the great composer's complex personality.

The product of forty years of research, here is the definitive study of a musical giant. It is, as The Wall Street Journal said of volume two, "a work of the first importance, one that nobody seriously interested in Mahler can possibly afford to skip."

-- VOLUME 4 (2008, Oxford University Press, 1758 p):

When the earlier volumes of de La Grange's monumental study of Gustav Mahler appeared, they were hailed across America--in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and many other publications--as an indispensable portrait of one of the greatest figures in the history of music. Here at last is the final volume of this magisterial work.

The fourth volume illuminates the composer's American period, when he was conductor for the Metropolitan Opera in New York. It contains a treasure trove of new material, in particular many unknown letters from Alma Mahler to her lover, Walter Gropius, and many articles and interviews about the composer and the performances he conducted while in New York. This detailed biography of the composer also includes new and valuable insights into the final year of his life, when he returned to Europe to die.

The crowning point of a decades-long project, during which the author has personally translated each volume from his original French into English, this scrupulously researched and insightfully written biography brings to a triumphant close the definitive account of Mahler's life and work.