The Eighth
Mahler and the World in 1910
(Sprache: Englisch)
The compelling story of Mahler's titanic Eighth Symphony.
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The compelling story of Mahler's titanic Eighth Symphony.
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The Eighth Symphony was going to be different from anything Mahler had ever done before. The intensely personal dramas of his earlier symphonies were a thing of the past - or rather, they were now to be seen as preludes to this new, culminating symphonic statement: he was quite sure it was the greatest thing he had ever written. The first seven symphonies were all, in their very different ways, acts of private confession, the unburdening of a hypersensitive soul, struggling to make sense of its own existence and of the thrilling and terrifying world in which it found itself. The Eighth would speak in different tones, and of a different kind of experience. It would be a bringer of joy through inspired settings of the hymn Veni, Creator Spiritus and the final scene of Goethe's Faust. The world première in Munich in the summer of 1910 was the artistic breakthrough for which the composer had yearned all his adult life, filling Munich's huge Neue Musik-Festhalle on two successive evenings, to tumultuous applause. Stephen Johnson recounts its far-reaching effect on composers, conductors and writers of the time - Berg and Schoenberg and the teenage Korngold, Bruno Walter and Klemperer, and the writers Stefan Zweig and Thomas Mann (the character of Gustav von Aschenbach in Mann's Death in Venice was partly based on the impression Mahler made on him in 1910). Placing Mahler within his world - in particular the German-speaking world - Johnson re-assesses Mahler's thoughts in the context of the prevailing thought of his age, not only in relation to the artistic and intellectual movements of the time, but through consideration of political climate and historical background, and on into science, medicine, technology, mass entertainment, and even the development of modern PR. Throughout we are made aware that in that same tumultuous summer Mahler worked desperately on his Tenth Symphony, was betrayed by his wife, and consulted Sigmund Freud. It is a story like no other.
Autoren-Porträt von Stephen Johnson
Johnson, Stephen Stephen Johnson studied cello at the Northern School of Music, Manchester, and went on to study composition with Alexander Goehr at Leeds University. After a brief period working for BBC Radio 3 he moved into musical journalism. Since then he has broadcast frequently for BBC Radio 3, Radio 4 and World Service, with major projects including fourteen programmes about the music of Bruckner for the centenary of the composer's death (1996). He has written regularly for the Independent, the Guardian, BBC Music Magazine and Gramophone, and is the author of several books including Bruckner Remembered (Faber, 1998) and How Shostakovich Changed My Mind (Notting Hill Editions, 2018). In 2003 Johnson was voted Amazon.com Classical Music Writer of the Year. His radio documentary, Shostakovich: Journey into Light, was nominated for a Sony Award in 2007, and in 2009 his documentary Vaughan Williams: Valiant for Truth won a Sony Gold Award.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Stephen Johnson
- 2020, Main, 320 Seiten, Maße: 13,5 x 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
- ISBN-10: 0571234941
- ISBN-13: 9780571234943
- Erscheinungsdatum: 11.06.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Thrilling . . . [a] magnificent, strongly argued and yet wonderfully subtle study. Whatever our final judgment may be on the Eighth, having read Johnson, we shall never listen to it in the same way again. John Banville Guardian
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