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The Cambridge Companion to Mahler IntheyearsapproachingthecentenaryofMahler’sdeath,thisbook providesbothsummationof,andstartingpointfor,anassessment andreassessmentofthecomposer’soutputandcreativeactivity. AuthoredbyacollectionofleadingspecialistsinMahlerscholarship, itsopeningchaptersplacethecomposerinsocio-politicaland culturalcontexts,anddiscusshisworkinlightofdevelopmentsin theaestheticsofmusicalmeaning.PartIIexaminesfromavarietyof analytical,interpretativeandcriticalstandpointsthecompleterange ofhisoutput,fromearlystudentworksandunfinishedfragments tothesketchesandperformingversionsoftheTenthSymphony. PartIIIevaluatesMahler’sroleasinterpreterofhisownandother composers’worksduringhislifelongcareerasoperaticand orchestralconductor.PartIVaddressesMahler’sfluctuating receptionhistoryfromscholarly,journalistic,creative,publicand commercialperspectives,withspecialattentionbeingpaidtohis compositionallegacy. 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EDITED BY Jeremy Barham CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,CambridgeCB28RU,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521540339 #CambridgeUniversityPress2007 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithout thewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2007 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,Cambridge AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN978-0-521-83273-1hardback ISBN978-0-521-54033-9paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityfor thepersistenceoraccuracyofURLsforexternalor third-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhisbook, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. Contents Listofplates pagevii Listoftablesandfigures viii Listofmusicexamples ix Notesoncontributors xi Acknowledgments xiv Chronology xv Listofabbreviations xxiv Introduction:MarginaliaonMahlertoday JeremyBarham 1 PART ONE Culturalcontexts 5 1 Socio-politicallandscapes:receptionandbiography PeterFranklin 7 2 TheliteraryandphilosophicalworldsofGustavMahler MortenSolvik 21 3 Musicandaesthetics:theprogrammaticissue VeraMicznik 35 PART TWO Mahlerthecreativemusician 49 4 Juveniliaandearlyworks:fromthefirstsongfragmentsto DasklagendeLied JeremyBarham 51 5 Songandsymphony(I).LiederundGesa¨ngeVolume1, LiedereinesfahrendenGesellenandtheFirstSymphony: compositionalpatternsforthefuture ZoltanRoman 72 6 Songandsong-symphony(I).DesKnabenWunderhorn andtheSecond,ThirdandFourthSymphonies:musicof heavenandearth PeterRevers 89 7 Songandsymphony(II).FromWunderhorntoRu¨ckertand themiddle-periodsymphonies:vocalandinstrumentalworks foranewcentury StephenE.Hefling 108 8 The‘greatest’andthe‘mostpersonal’:theEighthSymphony andDasLiedvonderErde ChristianWildhagen 128 [v] vi Contents 9 Thelastworks Jo¨rgRothkamm 143 PART THREE Mahlerthere-creativemusician 163 10 Mahlerasconductorintheoperahouseandconcerthall HertaBlaukopf 165 11 ArrangementsandRetuschen:MahlerandWerktreue DavidPickett 178 PART FOUR Receptionandperformance 201 12 IssuesinMahlerreception:historicismandmisreadings after1960 ChristophMetzger 203 13 ThehistoryoftheInternationalGustavMahlerSociety inViennaandtheCompleteCriticalEdition ReinholdKubik 217 14 Musicallanguagesofloveanddeath:Mahler’scompositional legacy StephenDownes 226 15 Mahlerconductedandrecorded:fromtheconcerthall toDVD LewisM.Smoley 243 16 Newresearchpathsincriticism,analysisandinterpretation JohnWilliamson 262 Appendix:selecteddiscography 275 Notes 294 Bibliography 319 Index 334 Plates 4.1 ‘EsfieleinReifinderFru¨hlingsnacht’ page52 4.2 ‘Imwunderscho¨nenMonatMai’ 54 6.1 Totenfeier,bars249–59 96 6.2 FourthSymphony,secondmovement,bars1–11 104 9.1 Hithertounpublishedshort-scoresketchpageofthe openingoftheAdagiooftheTenthSymphony(O¨NB Mus.Hs.41.000/6Bl.6) 151 9.2 Hithertopartlyunpublishedshort-scoresketchpage oftheAdagio(bars110–40)oftheTenthSymphony (PSFSammlungGrumbacherNr.173) 152 [vii] Tables and figures 2.1 AsampleofliterarysourcesinMahler’sworks (bydateofbirthofauthor) page26 3.1 TextualitiesinthefirstmovementofMahler’s FirstSymphony facingpage48 4.1 Chronologyofcomposition,revisionandperformance ofDasklagendeLied 64 4.2 Mahler’srevisionstoDasklagendeLied 65 5.1 ‘Ichhab’einglu¨hendMesser’,formaldiagram 79 8.1 FormaloutlineofDasLiedvonderErde 139 [viii]
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