Mahler: A Biography – Jonathan Carr Weekendaanbieding

The focus is on Mahler’s last decade, his tempestuous marriage to the alluring Alma Schindler, his work as a “summer composer” in isolated huts in the country, his revolutionary achievements as director of the Vienna opera and his final years in America. But it sets the stage by looking into Mahler’s earlier career as a talented, ambitious, and often ruthless conductor. In her memoirs Alma drew Mahler as a sickly, cerebral recluse. Arnold Schoenberg called him a “saint.” Leonard Bernstein, largely responsib…