Description
| Product ID: | 9780571260799 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Why Mahler? |
| Subtitle: | How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World |
| Authors: | Author: Norman Lebrecht |
| Page Count: | 384 |
| Subjects: | Art music, orchestral and formal music, Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900), Composers and songwriters, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. In this highly original account of the composer's life and work, Norman Lebrecht explores the Mahler Effect, asking why Mahler's music has become the soundtrack to our twenty-first-century lives. A century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. Displacing Beethoven as a box-office draw, heard in Hollywood films and on state occasions, his music inspires particular devotion. Some believe it helps heal emotional wounds, others find intellectual fascination in its contradictory meanings, and many feel that the music captures the yearnings and anxieties of our post-industrial society. In this highly original account of the composer''s life and work, Norman Lebrecht explores the Mahler Effect, asking why Mahler''s music has become the soundtrack to our twenty-first-century lives. |
| Imprint Name: | Faber & Faber |
| Publisher Name: | Faber & Faber |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-09-01 |