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Gustav Mahler : the early years. / Donald Mitchell.

By: Mitchell, Donald, 1925-.
Contributor(s): Banks, Paul, 1951- | Matthews, David, 1943-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1980Description: xxii, 338 p. : ill., 26 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0520202147.Subject(s): Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911 | Composers -- Austria -- BiographyDDC classification: 780.92 MAH
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Donald Mitchell's well-known study of Mahler's early life and music is now available in paperback. On its first appearance in 1958, the book was greeted as a major advance in Mahler documentation and research. This edition was prepared with the help of Paul Banks and David Matthews, who, in a substantial critical appendix, correct and amplify Mitchell's classic text.

Bibliography: p. xix-xxii - Includes indexes.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface to 1958 Edition (p. vii)
  • Editors' Preface (1978) (p. xii)
  • Preface (1995) (p. xiii)
  • Preface (2003) (p. xiv)
  • Illustrations (p. xviii)
  • Bibliography and Key (p. xix)
  • Additional Reading List (p. xxiii)
  • Critical Editions (2003) (p. xxiv)
  • Supplementary Bibliography (2003) (p. xxv)
  • I 1860-1875 (p. 1)
  • II 1875-1878 (p. 27)
  • III 1878-1880 (p. 75)
  • IV The Early Works (p. 116)
  • Notes--I 1860-1875 (p. 230)
  • Notes--II 1875-1878 (p. 235)
  • Notes--III 1878-1880 (p. 247)
  • Notes--IV The Early Works (p. 253)
  • Appendix
  • To I (p. 268)
  • To II (p. 276)
  • To III (p. 293)
  • To IV (p. 299)
  • To Notes (p. 319)
  • Revised List of Early Works (p. 322)
  • Supplementary Notes (2003) (p. 325)
  • Index to Text (p. 331)
  • Index to Appendix (p. 340)
  • Index to 2003 Additional Text (p. 343)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Donald Mitchell was born in 1925. Two composers have been central to his writings on music, Gustav Mahler and Benjamin Britten. He is Trustee Emeritus of the Britten -- Pears Foundation and Life President of the Britten Estate. He is currently a visiting Professor at the Universities of Sussex and York. He was awarded the Gustav Mahler Medal of Honour of the international Gustav Mahler Society in Vienna in 1987, and in New York in 2002, together with Henry-Louis de La Grange, he was awarded by Bard College the Charles Flint Kellog Award for his services to Mahler's music. He was appointed CBE in 2002

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