Mahler in Context

Mahler in Context explores the institutions artists thinkers cultural movements socio-political conditions and personal relationships that shaped Mahler''s creative output. Focusing on the contexts surrounding the artist the collection provides a sense of the complex crosscurrents against which Mahler was reacting as conductor composer and human being. Topics explored include his youth and training performing career creative activity spiritual and philosophical influences and his reception after his death. Together this collection of specially commissioned essays offers a wide-ranging investigation of the ecology surrounding Mahler as a composer and a fuller appreciation of the topics that occupied his mind as he conceived his works. Readers will benefit from engagement with lesser known dimensions of Mahler''s life. Through this broader contextual approach this book will serve as a valuable and unique resource for students scholars and a general readership.