May 18 a century ago was a stormy Thursday in Vienna. In the Opera successfully represented Strauss Elektra and that night, at eleven and five, died Gustav Mahler. He was just over a month to meet his death 51 years and left a work which is probably the most significant of contemporary music.
When marks a century of his death, Music Alliance published a splendid book about the musician. why Mahler? How a man and ten symphonies changed the world, by Norman Lebrecht is a thorough tour of the biography of the artist, their personal anxieties and creative fulfillment.
Its author, Norman Lebrecht, music critic is an expert and his approach is both close and rigorous analysis of a brilliant and profound work, as the subtitle explains, changed the world.
is an excellent introduction to the world intense and overbearing of whom knew his time would come after his death. On his grave just wanted a plaque with your name: who comes to me will know who I "he said. And the rest does not need to know.
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