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Highlights
- Why Mahler?
- About the Author: Norman Lebrecht has written several best-selling works of nonfiction, including The Maestro Myth and Who Killed Classical Music?
- 336 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, Music
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About the Book
"Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2010"--Title page verso.Book Synopsis
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.Review Quotes
"A brisk, engaging journey through the life of a fascinating and enormously influential artist."
--Kansas City Star
--The Economist "Lebrecht's book brings Mahler scholarship into to the present by including interviews with conductors, visits to sites with Mahler connections and an excellent annotated discography."
--The Star-Ledger "Readers of Why Mahler? will be grateful to Lebrecht for his enthusiasm and for his highly personal cultural history."
--The Wall Street Journal "As a short introduction to the meaning of Mahler, this sympathetic biography will do very well."
--The Times (London) "We could not put the book down. Mahler is boss."
--Richmond Times-Dispatch
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.
Dimensions (Overall): 7.95 Inches (H) x 5.18 Inches (W) x 1.04 Inches (D)
Weight: .58 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 336
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Music
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
Author: Norman Lebrecht
Language: English
Street Date: November 1, 2011
TCIN: 92438933
UPC: 9781400096572
Item Number (DPCI): 247-12-3446
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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