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Gustav Mahler. Visionary and Despot Constantin Floros

Gustav Mahler. Visionary and Despot By Constantin Floros

Gustav Mahler. Visionary and Despot by Constantin Floros


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Gustav Mahler. Visionary and Despot

Gustav Mahler. Visionary and Despot Summary

Gustav Mahler. Visionary and Despot: Portrait of A Personality. Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch by Constantin Floros

With the terms visionary and despot, the author seeks to circumscribe the multilayered personality of Gustav Mahler. Opening up a terra incognita, he draws a comprehensive map of the various aspects of Mahler's inner biography: his unshakable belief in the sacredness of musical art and strongly developed sense of mission, his double life as conductor and composer, his inexorability and refusal to compromise vis-a-vis himself and others, his discomfort with the world in which he lived, the complex facets of his psyche and his enormous energy potential. The result is the disclosure of new and unexpected connections between Mahler's personality and his oeuvre.

About Constantin Floros

Constantin Floros is professor emeritus of musicology at the University of Hamburg. He has published several volumes about Gustav Mahler. In recognition of his many years of researching, the International Mahler Society awarded him the Mahler Medal in gold in March of 2010.
Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch is professor emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Indiana University. He has translated several books by Constantin Floros.

Table of Contents

Contents: A Complex Personality - Conductor and Creative Artist - The Despot - Jewishness and Anti-Semitism - Alma - My Music is Lived - The God-Seeker - The Sorrow of Creation - Humor - Liebestod - The Beatification.

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NGR9783631624326
9783631624326
3631624328
Gustav Mahler. Visionary and Despot: Portrait of A Personality. Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch by Constantin Floros
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Hardback
Peter Lang AG
2012-05-24
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