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Gustav Mahler, Volume 3. Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion . - 1904-1907 - Review - book review
Contemporary Review, Feb, 2001
Gustav Mahler, Volume 3. Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion (1904-1907). Henry-Louis de la Grange. Oxford University Press. [pound]35.00. 1000 pages. ISBN 0-19-315160-X. It is perhaps fitting that a man who wrote such long symphonies should himself be the subject of such a long biography. This is the second of a projected four-volume biography that is an expanded and revised English translation of the text originally published in France.
The author has worked on Mahler for some 40 years, has amassed an enormous amount of material relating to his subject's life and is recognised as the leading authority on the musician's life and works. This volume begins with Mahler's conducting Fidelio in Vienna, moves on to the first performance of his Fifth Symphony in Cologne and ends in December 1897 as Mahler and his wife set sail for New York and its Metropolitan Opera House. In between are all his heartaches, achievements and disputes, as well as the musical politics that made up his life -- in extenso.
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