With the exception of a few songs and song cycles, the symphony as a musical form was the be all and end all for Gustav Mahler. He composed no concertos, hardly any chamber music, and though he was an ...

Compared to the four volumes and 4,500 pages Henry-Louis de La Grange obsessively devoted to the subject, Jens Malte Fischer’s one-volume, 700-page biography of Gustav Mahler is sanely modest in its ...

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 ...

Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century ...

In Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 musical “Company,” Elaine Stritch raspily sang a toast to the trendy “ladies who lunch,” who fill their days with a “matinee, a Pinter play, perhaps a piece of Mahler’s.” ...

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 ...

Möst's direction brought out nuanced performances from soloists including cellist Mark Kosower and concertmaster Joel Link at ...

Conductor Robert Olson founded Colorado MahlerFest on a shoestring budget in 1987. The annual tribute to Austrian composer Gustav Mahler grew over the ensuing 28 years, drawing volunteer musicians ...

KALISTE, CZECH REPUBLIC — I slept very well in the house where Gustav Mahler was born, waking in the morning to the bright sound of chirping birds in the trees outside my window. Once a shop and ...