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Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World

Name: Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World
Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SKU: 9781400096572
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Contributors:

Norman Lebrecht

Publisher:

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Release Date:

2011-11-01

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Biography & Autobiography, Music

Book Subcategory:

Music, Genres & Styles, Instruction & Study

Book Topic:

Classical, Appreciation

ISBN 13:

9781400096572

Weight:

0.58 lbs

Size:

Pages:

336

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Why Mahler? Why does his music affect us in the way it does?

Norman Lebrecht, one of the world's most widely read cultural commentators, has been wrestling obsessively with Mahler for half his life. Following Mahler's every footstep from birthplace to grave, scrutinizing his manuscripts, talking to those who knew him, Lebrecht constructs a compelling new portrait of Mahler as a man who lived determinedly outside his own times. Mahler was--along with Picasso, Einstein, Freud, Kafka, and Joyce--a maker of our modern world. Why Mahler? is a book that shows how music can change our lives.

About the Author

Norman Lebrecht has written several best-selling works of nonfiction, including The Maestro Myth and Who Killed Classical Music? He is also the award-winning author of the novels The Song of Names and The Game of Opposites. He writes regularly for Bloomberg.com and The Wall Street Journal, and he presents The Lebrecht Interview series on BBC Radio 3 and The Record Doctor on WNYC. He lives in London.

Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World

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