The Cambridge Companion to Mahler »

Jeremy Barham is Lecturer in Music in the Department of Music and Sound Recording, University of Surrey.

Contributory volume examining the life and musical works of the composer and conductor Gustav Mahler.

List of plates     vii
List of tables and figures     viii
List of music examples     ix
Notes on contributors     xi
Acknowledgments     xiv
Chronology     xv
List of abbreviations     xxiv
Introduction: Marginalia on Mahler today   Jeremy Barham     1
Cultural contexts     5
Socio-political landscapes: reception and biography   Peter Franklin     7
The literary and philosophical worlds of Gustav Mahler   Morten Solvik     21
Music and aesthetics: the programmatic issue   Vera Micznik     35
Mahler the creative musician     49
Juvenilia and early works: from the first song fragments to   Das klagende Lied   Jeremy Barham     51
Song and symphony (I). Lieder und Gesange Volume 1, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and the First Symphony: compositional patterns for the future   Zoltan Roman     72
Song and song-symphony (I). Des Knaben Wunderhorn and the Second, Third and Fourth Symphonies: music of heaven and earth   Peter Revers     89
Song and symphony (II). From Wunderhorn to Ruckert and the middle-period symphonies: vocal and instrumental works for a new century   Stephen E. Hefling     108
The 'greatest' and the 'most personal': the Eighth Symphony and Das Lied von der Erde   Christian Wildhagen     128
The last works   Jorg Rothkamm     143
Mahler the re-creative musician     163
Mahler as conductor in the opera house and concert hall   Herta Blaukopf     165
Arrangements and Retuschen: Mahler and Werktreue   David Pickett     178
Reception and performance     201
Issues in Mahler reception: historicism and misreadings after 1960   Christoph Metzger     203
The history of the International Gustav Mahler Society in Vienna and the Complete Critical Edition   Reinhold Kubik     217
Musical languages of love and death: Mahler's compositional legacy   Stephen Downes     226
Mahler conducted and recorded: from the concert hall to DVD   Lewis M. Smoley     243
New research paths in criticism, analysis and interpretation   John Williamson     262
selected discography     275
Notes     294
Bibliography     319
Index     334