Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on Translation
Introduction: Friends
1. Children
2. Conductors
3. Husbands
4. Wagnerians
5. Businessmen
6. Literati
7. Autobiographers
8. Programmmusiker
9. Imports
10. Allusionists
11. Ironists
12. Metaphysicians
Epilogue: Individuals
Bibliography
Index
Charles Youmans is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Penn State University and author of Richard Strauss's Orchestral Music and the German Intellectual Tradition: The Philosophical Roots of Musical Modernism (IUP, 2005).
[T]his book is a serious and muchneeded intellectual examination of
these two composers and the impact of literary, philosophical, and
spiritual interests on their music.
*Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism*
Mahler and Strauss is an important and engaging study that will
speak volumes not just to admirers of two consummate artists, but
to anyone interested in Austro-German culture around 1900 and its
aftermath.
*Austrian Studies*
Mahler and Strauss takes us on a journey that traverses the broader
historical and cultural climate of German-speaking Europe at the
turn of the twentieth century (with a brief excursion to America
along the way). And throughout this journey we are offered a
succession of fresh and imaginative readings of the source material
that provide us with new ways of understanding the fundamental
importance of a profoundly meaningful friendship between two
remarkable musicians.
*Nineteenth-Century Music Review*
Thanks to Youmans's lucid style and easy mastery of often dense
material, it works well, and the high aesthetic stakes involved are
established early.
*The Musical Times*
A fascinating volume . . . It's also an impressive achievement in
terms of its scholarship and casts a great deal of light on these
two composers, both individually and together.
*Grammophone*
"Along the way, Mahler and Strauss in Dialogue tells a compelling
story of the unexpected ways that their worlds overlapped. In so
doing, it provides a model for comparative analysis that enriches
our understanding of a relationship that indelibly shaped the
musical world of their time and continues to fascinate us
today."
*German Studies Review*
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