Mahler: Symphony No. 3

by Peter Franklin

Book Overview

Mahler's Third Symphony was conceived as a musical picture of the natural world. This handbook describes the composition of Mahler's grandiose piece of philosophical programme music in the context of the ideas that inspired it and the artistic debates and social conflicts that it reflects. In this original and wide ranging account, Peter Franklin takes the Third Symphony as a representative modern European symphony of its period and evaluates it as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521379474
• ISBN13: 9780521379472
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.5"