Gustav Mahler was an artist of gigantic ambitions, and Jens Malte Fischer's biography, available in English a decade after it was first published in Germany, is on a comparable scale. At 766 pages, it ...

Norman Lebrecht, in his new book, “Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World,” speaks of “Mahler’s capacity to pierce human defenses.” And it is certainly true that Mahler’s music ...

Faber has bought the rights to a title on the life and works of composer Gustav Mahler. Belinda Matthews, editorial director at Faber, bought UK and Commonwealth rights from Jonny Geller at Curtis ...

During the last 25 years or so, most musicians would say Leonard Bernstein, who started a Mahler binge in the 1960s and has shown no signs of letting up. But close on his heels has been Henry-Louis de ...

On Gustav Mahler: A Life in Crisis, by Stuart Feder. For Mahler, the customer was always wrong. He likewise squelched her youthful composing ambitions: “The role of composer falls to me—yours is that ...

ALMA MAHLER: OR THE ART OF BEING LOVED. Francoise Giroud. Oxford University Press. 162 pages. $21.95. English-reading audiences have waited 10 years for Henry-Louis de la Grange (of mixed ...