Gustav Mahler: Volume 4 a New Life Cut Short 1907-1911

by Henry-Louis de La Grange

Gustav Mahler was one of the supremely gifted musicians of his generation. His contemporaries came to know him as a composer of startling originality whose greatest successes with the public never failed to provoke controversy among the critics. As a conductor, his relentless pursuit of perfection was sometimes viewed as tyrannical by the singers and musicians who came under his baton. Professor Henry-Louis de La Grange has devoted over thirty years...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198163878
• ISBN13: 9780198163879
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 1776 Pages
• Weight: 4.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.9" x 9.3" x 6.5"