Gustav Mahler: Letters to His Wife

by Gustav Mahler

"Gustav Mahler and Alma Maria Schindler were married in... 1902. The bride was twenty-one and a half years old, her groom a few months short of forty-two. Apart from their substantial age difference, it seems to have been the very disparity of their intellectual and social backgrounds that drew them together. Mahler was attracted to Alma by her beauty, her alert mind and emotional intensity. Though aware that he possessed by far the broader outlook,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801443407
• ISBN13: 9780801443404
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher