by Norman Lebrecht · Anchor · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781400096572
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«Why Mahler?» is Norman Lebrecht's essay on Gustav Mahler and his ten symphonies, published by Anchor in paperback (336 pages, in English).
Lebrecht reconstructs Mahler's life and explains why his music, scorned in his own time, became universal: he traces his manuscripts and stages to show how the composer reflected modern anxieties —racism, social conflicts, alienation, depression— and how his symphonies made their way from Bernstein to cinema.
Essay published by Anchor in 2011, in English and with 336 pages. Corresponds to the Reprint edition.
For readers interested in classical music, composer biographies, and how twentieth-century culture assimilated Mahler.
Norman Lebrecht is a British music journalist best known as the owner of the classical music blog Slipped Disc. His writings have been accused of sensationalism and criticized for their inaccuracies and tendency to gossip, while others have praised them as entertaining. Unlike other writers on music, Lebrecht rarely reviews concerts or recordings, preferring to report on the people and organizations who engage in classical music. He was described by Gilbert Kaplan as "surely the most controversial and arguably the most influential journalist covering classical music".
