Table of Contents

List of plates; Preface; Acknowledgements; Bibliographic abbreviations; 1. The young Mahler, 1875–1880: essay in situational analysis after Karl R. Popper Herta Blaukopf; 2. Das klagende Lied reconsidered Edward R. Reilly; 3. 'Liebste Justi!': the family letters of Gustav Mahler Stephen McClatchie; 4. Before Alma: Gustav Mahler and 'Das Ewig-Weibliche' Stuart Feder; 5. Mahler and Smetana: significant influences or accidental parallels? Donald Mitchell; 6. Music about music in Mahler: reminiscences, allusions, or quotations? Henry-Louis de La Grange; 7. 'Ihm in die Lieder zu blicken': Mahler's Seventh Symphony sketchbook Stephen E. Hefling; 8. Prolonged counterpoint in Mahler Kofi Agawu; 9. Dissonance and middleground prolongations in Mahler's later music John Williamson; 10. '… his fractures are the script of truth.' - Adorno's Mahler Peter Franklin; Index.

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