Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World
Author(s): Norman Lebrecht
Why Mahler? Why does his music affect us in the way it does?
Norman Lebrecht, one of the world's most widely read cultural commentators, has been wrestling obsessively with Mahler for half his life. Following Mahler's every footstep from birthplace to grave, scrutinizing his manuscripts, talking to those who knew him, Lebrecht constructs a compelling new portrait of Mahler as a man who lived determinedly outside his own times. Mahler was--along with Picasso, Einstein, Freud, Kafka, and Joyce--a maker of our modern world. "Why Mahler? "is a book that shows how music can change our lives.
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Norman Lebrecht has written several best-selling works of nonfiction, including "The Maestro Myth" and "Who Killed Classical Music?" He is also the award-winning author of the novels "The Song of Names" and "The Game of Opposites." He writes regularly for Bloomberg.com and "The Wall Street Journal, " and he presents "The Lebrecht Interview" series on BBC Radio 3 and "The Record Doctor" on WNYC. He lives in London.
General Fields
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- : Random House USA Inc
- : Random House Inc
- : 0.263
- : 202mm X 132mm X 26mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : 322
- : 780.92
- : Paperback / softback
- : Norman Lebrecht