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- -vis himself and others, his discomfort...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631624328
• ISBN13: 9783631624326
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"