Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction - Andrew Nicholson
1: Leon Botstein: Gustav Mahler's Vienna
2: John Williamson: The Earliest Completed Works: A Voyage towards the First Symphony
3: Paul Hamburger: Mahler and Des Knaben Wunderhorn
4: Edward Reilly: Todtenfeier and the Second Symphony
5: Morten Solvik: Mahler and Germany
6: Henry-Louis de La Grange: Mahler and France
7: Gérard Pesson: Mahler and Debussy: Transcendence and Emotion
8: Peter Franklin: A Stranger's Story: Programmes, Politics, and Mahler's Third Symphony
9: Donald Mitchell: 'Swallowing the Programme': Mahler's Fourth Symphony
10: Donald Mitchell: Mahler's 'Kammermusikton'
11: Donald Mitchell: Eternity or Nothingness? Mahler's Fifth Symphony
12: Eveline Nikkels: Mahler and Holland
13: Stephen E. Hefling: The Rückert Lieder
14: David Matthews: The Sixth Symphony
15: Peter Revers: The Seventh Symphony
16: Donald Mitchell: Mahler in Prague (1908)
17: John Williamson: The Eighth Symphony
18: Edward R. Reilly: Mahler in America
19: Stephen E. Heffling: Das Lied von der Erde
20: Stephen E. Heffling: The Ninth Symphony
21: Colin Matthews: The Tenth Symphony
22: David Matthews: Wagner, Lipiner, and the 'Purgatorio'
23: Inna Barsova: Mahler and Russia
24: Kenji Aoyagi: Mahler and Japan
25: Andrew Nicholson: Mahler in London in 1892
26: Donald Mitchell: The Mahler Renaissance in England: Its Origins and Chronology
27: Wilfrid Mellors: Mahler and the Great Tradition: Then and Now
EpilogueAlbrecht Joseph, Marina Mahler, and Donald Mitchell: Mahler's Smile: A Memoir of his Daughter Anna Mahler (1904 - 1988)
Select Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

Dr Mitchell was awarded the Gustav Mahler medal of Honour of the International Gustav Mahler Society, Vienna, 1987.

About the Author

Dr Mitchell is a Trustee of the Britten-Pears Foundation and Chariman of the Britten Estate Ltd; Founder Professor of Music at the University of Sussex (1971 - 1976); and is currently visiting Professor at Sussex, York and King's College, London. He was awarded the Gustav Mahler Medal of Honour of the International Gustav Mahler Society in 1987, in Vienna. Dr Mitchell is Research Fellow in Romantic Studies in the Department of English, University of Bristol. His
principal interest is in Byron having published several books on the poet, including Lord Byron: The Complete Miscellaneous Prose (OUP 1991).

Reviews

the one-stop guide to Mahler - a volume of essays covering the widest range of Mahlerian topics, designed both for the academic and serious amateur music-lover ... The core of the compendium is its coverage of all the main works, carrying recent research, with plentiful musical examples and other illustrations. Andrew Green, Classical Music 08/11/1999 beautifully produced volume ... a tribute that surveys the familiar with affectionate new insights ... all the articles on Mahler's reception outside Austria, both during his life and after, make for fascinating reading. David Nice, BBC Music Magazine October 1999 The Mahler Companion constitutes a distinguished and fitting monument to Mitchell's lifelong devotion to Mahler, and, in mustering so much talent in one volume, there is no doubt that it will deservedly take its place among the most significant publications on the composer. Jeremy Barham, Music & Letters