Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Notes on the Contributors
Abbreviations
Andrew Nicholson: Introduction
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 R. 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: Transcendance 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: Mahler's `Kammermusikton' - Donald Mitchell
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. Hefling: Das Lied von der Erde
20: Stephen E. Hefling: 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 Mellers: Mahler and the Great Tradition: Then and Now
Albrecht Joseph, Marina, Mahler, and Donald Mitchell: Epilogue. Mahler's Smile: A Memoir of his Daughter Anna Mahler (1904-1988)
Select Bibliography
Index

Reviews

`Worth every penny. ... £50 for this book is money well spent. Broadly speaking, the book deals with the music in chronological order. This is by far the best approach, as with any composer, and it works extremely well in Mahler's case.'
Robert Matthew-Walker, Spring 2000 Musical Opinion.
`The Mahler Companion constitutes a distinguished and fitting monument to Mitchell'sl 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, Vol.81, No.2, May 2000
`The first full chapter, Leon Botstein's 'Gustav Mahler's Vienna' is one of the jewels of the collection.'
Jeremy Barham, Music & Letters, Vol.81, No.2, May 2000
`Nicholson gently but persuasively reminds us in his mouth-watering little introduction of the literary and philosophical networking, the search for meaning and the questioning of existence that Mahler's music for many almost irresistibly engenders.'
Jeremy Barham, Music & Letters, Vol.81, No.2, May 2000
`perhaps the largest and most ambitious single-volume study of Mahler ever to have been produced'
Jeremy Barham, Music & Letters, Vol.81, No.2, May 2000
`the latest thoughts on the Austrian composer'
BBC Music Magazine, selection of the best books of 1999, December 1999
`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
`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
`beautifully produced volume ... readers will want to have absorbed what they can of Henry-Louis de La Grange's near-exhaustive biographical study, not to mention shorter studies by Deryck Cooke and Michael Kennedy, before they embrace the latest wisdom of Mahler scholars in the late Nineties'
David Nice, BBC Music Magazine
`It is ... of great interest to Mahler enthusiasts as (almost) all the content is newly commissioned ... The Mahler Companion is part celebration, part vindication by a distinguished selection of early converts to the cause ... Mitchell provides erudition and enthusiasm in large ... measure ... It is good to have composers represented alongside academics (and the Matthews' material here is a must) ... including a marginally relevant memoir of the composer's
daughter, Anna. It makes an entertaining read'
David Gutman, Gramophone, September 1999