Gustav Mahler: A Life in Crisis - Hardcover

Feder, Stuart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300103409 ISBN 13: 9780300103403

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2004

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Book by Feder Stuart

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"No one but Feder has sorted out all that can be known about what went on during Mahler's famous session with Freud. This is an important book by an author well qualified to write it." Stephen E. Hefling, Case Western Reserve University "A first-rate book by a writer who is eminently well equipped to handle its double nature. Gustav Mahler: A Life in Crisis will appeal to both music lovers and those interested in psychoanalysis." Peter Gay, author of My German Question"

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The life of the brilliant composer and conductor Gustav Mahler was punctuated by crisis. His parents both died in 1889, leaving him the reluctant head of a household of siblings. He himself endured a nearly fatal medical ordeal in 1901. A beloved daughter died in 1907 and that same year, under pressure, Mahler resigned from the directorship of the Vienna Opera. In each case Mahler more than mastered the trauma; he triumphed in the creation of new major musical works. The final crisis of Mahler's career occurred in 1910, when he learned that his wife, Alma, was having an affair with the architect Walter Gropius. The revelation precipitated a breakdown while Mahler was working on his Tenth Symphony. The anguished, suicidal notes Mahler scrawled across the manuscript of the unfinished symphony revealed his troubled state. A four-hour consultation with Sigmund Freud in Leiden, Holland, restored the composer's equilibrium. Although Mahler left little record of what transpired in Leiden, Stuart Feder has reconstructed the encounter on the basis of surviving evidence. The cumulative stresses of the crises in Mahler's life, in particular Alma's betrayal, left him physically and emotionally vulnerable. He became ill and died soon after in 1911. At once a sophisticated consideration of Mahler's work and a psychologically acute portrait of the life events that shaped it, this book extends our thinking about one of the great masters of modern music.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0300103409
• ISBN 13: 9780300103403
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352