by Bruno Walter · Quartet Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780704301191
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«Gustav Mahler» is the biography of Gustav Mahler written by Bruno Walter, published by Quartet Books Ltd in paperback (132 pages, in German).
Bruno Walter worked with Mahler as an assistant in Hamburg and at the Vienna Opera. This book collects his personal testimony, written in 1936 on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the composer's death, in defence of his genius and his difficult personality. After his death, Walter conducted the premieres of the Ninth Symphony and «Das Lied von der Erde».
Work originally published in 1957; this edition is from 1990 and belongs to the «Quartet Encounters» series. Includes an introduction by Michael Tanner.
Readers interested in musical biographies and the figure of Gustav Mahler.
