Gustav Mahler: Three Song Cycles

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Gustav Mahler

Three Song Cycles

Gustav Mahler

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German

Dover Publications Inc.
14 January 1992

Music; Music: styles & genres; Songbooks

This convenient volume contains Mahler's three great song cycles in piano-vocal score, reprinted from authoritative German and Austrian editions. All three complete scores offer singers and musicians the opportunity to study and savor the compelling musical qualities of these famous works at the piano. Songs of a Wayfarer (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen), the composer's first song cycle, is considered by many the masterpiece of his early period. A setting of his strongly autobiographical text, this is a revealing self-portrait of a young man. The haunting musical imagery of Songs of the Deaths of Children (Kindertotenlieder), Mahler's setting of five poems by Friedrich Ruchert, embodies the chromatic harmonies typical of his late work. In The Song of the Earth (Das Lied von der Erde), Mahler combines the forms that most obsessed him -- song and symphony -- into a masterpiece that epitomized his musical genius and the very spirit of late Romanticism. Based on six poems translated from Chinese, the songs merge from passionate evocations of the pleasures of youth to dark and foreboding expressions of loneliness, sorrow, and farewell.

By: Gustav Mahler
Imprint: Dover Publications Inc.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 304mm, Width: 229mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 443g
ISBN: 9780486269542
ISBN 10: 048626954X
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 14 January 1992
Audience: Adult education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) wrote chiefly symphonies and Lieder. Late Romantic in style, his tempestuous works reflect the anxious mood of Europe at the turn of the 20th century. Because of his Jewish roots, the composer's music was suppressed by the Nazis but has enjoyed a steady revival over the past five decades.

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Gustav Mahler

Three Song Cycles

Gustav Mahler

$38.95

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