Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss: Correspondence 1888-1911 by Blaukopf, Herta - 1996

University of Chicago Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

University Of Chicago Press, 1996-06-15. Paperback. Good.

University Of Chicago Press, 1996. Paperback. Very Good. 100x4x148. Binding firm, interior clean and unmarked. 171 pp. Notes, index.

University Of Chicago Press, 1996. Book. New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Stiff black and gold wraps. Brand new, unopened in original publisher's shrinkwrap..

University of Chicago Press, 1996-06-15. 1. Paperback. Used:Good.

University of Chicago Press, 1996. Softcover. Almost as New/No Dust Jacket. Standard paperback binding, illustrated in black & white. - Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss came to know one another as young conductors in Leipzig in 1887. From then until Mahler's death in 1911-the year of the first performance of Der Rosenkavalier-they kept in touch. Mahler himself described their relationship as that of two miners tunneling from opposite directions with the hope of eventually meeting. This first publication of their correspondence, which includes twenty-five previously unknown Strauss letters, offers a portrait of two men who were as antithetical in their musical means and goals as in their temperaments and personalities, but who exercised a strong fascination for one another. These sixty-three letters show both composers advancing in their careers as they battled against adverse conditions in the musical world at the turn of the century. They present Mahler's energetic support of Strauss's… Read More