Bøger i de La Grange: Mahler 4 volumes serien

This text covers the years 1904-1907 and shows Mahler in his final years at the Hofoper coping with the demands on his energy and creative powers of the Opera and his struggle for recognition as a composer in his own right, and shows the first signs of marital difficulties with Alma emerge.

This is the second volume of de La Grange's monumental study of the life and music of Gustav Mahler. Thirty years of research and a vast array of documentary material are here co-ordinated. It also discusses many popular works he wrote in this period: the Fourth and Fifth Symphonies, and the Wunderhorn-, Ruckert-, and Kindertotenleider.