Description
Why Mahler? Why does his music affect us in the way it does?
Norman Lebrecht, one of the world's most widely read cultural commentators, has been wrestling obsessively with Mahler for half his life. Following Mahler's every footstep from birthplace to grave, scrutinizing his manuscripts, talking to those who knew him, Lebrecht constructs a compelling new portrait of Mahler as a man who lived determinedly outside his own times. Mahler was--along with Picasso, Einstein, Freud, Kafka, and Joyce--a maker of our modern world. Why Mahler? is a book that shows how music can change our lives.Author: Norman Lebrecht
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 11/01/2011
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 7.95h x 5.18w x 1.04d
ISBN13: 9781400096572
ISBN10: 140009657X
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Music
- Music | Genres & Styles | Classical
- Music | Instruction & Study | Appreciation
About the Author
Norman Lebrecht has written several best-selling works of nonfiction, including The Maestro Myth and Who Killed Classical Music? He is also the award-winning author of the novels The Song of Names and The Game of Opposites. He writes regularly for Bloomberg.com and The Wall Street Journal, and he presents The Lebrecht Interview series on BBC Radio 3 and The Record Doctor on WNYC. He lives in London.