Mahler Re-Composed (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781450289801)

In 2010, the composer Gustav Mahler celebrates his one hundred fiftieth birthday. In Mahler Re-Composed, linguist George Cummins shares a collection of six interrelated essays that provide a fresh perspective on difficult questions familiar to Mahler lovers. Cummins, a teacher of Russian and Czech at Tulane University, brings a uniquely Czech perspective to the study of Mahler's personality and work. In his careful examination of the composer's life and work, Cummins begins with an introduction that provides a glimpse into Mahler the Czech and continues with an account of Mahler's conversion from Judaism to Catholicism while making his way to the Vienna Hofoper directorship.

Cummins also takes a skeptical look at the legend of Mahler as an impotent, humorless neurotic and recreates the friendship between Strauss and Mahler-two of the greatest musicians of the early twentieth century.

Author: George M. III Cummins
ISBN-10: 1450289800
ISBN-13: 9781450289801
Publisher: iUniverse
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2011
Pages: 520
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.01lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.31d