Above: Why Mahler by Norman Lebrecht - how one man and ten symphonies changed the world.
The challenging complexities of classical music… a world of feeling and ideas… Nikolai Korndorf wrote the 1990 Hymn in Honour of Gustav Mahler… Thomas Mann did not expect anyone to recognize Mahler as Aschenbach in Death in Venice… Ken Russell's film Mahler (1974)... Mahler’s music is a fast track to deep-core emotion and a way of connection with true self… Mahler offers depth and breadth to the thought process… the Mahler fortress becomes a private refuge… the symphonies are dauntingly long and the songs are in German… The Vienna of Freud, Mahler, Mach, Wittgenstein, Schnitzler, Herzl, Trotsky forged the world we know today - a meeting point of individualism and collectivism, of egotism and idealism, the erotic and the ascetic, the elevated and the debased... the most popular and influential symphonist of our age...
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