{"product_id":"why-mahler-isbn-9781400096572","title":"Why Mahler?","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy Mahler? Why does his music affect us in the way it does?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNorman 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. \u003ci\u003eWhy Mahler? \u003c\/i\u003eis a book that shows how music can change our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A brisk, engaging journey through the life of a fascinating and enormously influential artist.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKansas City Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Very enjoyable to read, gossipy as well as learned, and it makes the man come to life.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lebrecht’s book brings Mahler scholarship into to the present by including interviews with conductors, visits to sites with Mahler connections and an excellent annotated discography.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Star-Ledger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Readers of \u003ci\u003eWhy Mahler? \u003c\/i\u003ewill be grateful to Lebrecht for his enthusiasm and for his highly personal cultural history.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“As a short introduction to the meaning of Mahler, this sympathetic biography will do very well.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e(London)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“We could not put the book down. Mahler is boss.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eRichmond Times-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNorman Lebrecht \u003c\/b\u003ehas written several best-selling works of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eThe Maestro Myth\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWho Killed Classical Music?\u003c\/i\u003e He is also the award-winning author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Song of Names\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Game of Opposites.\u003c\/i\u003e He writes regularly for Bloomberg.com and \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal,\u003c\/i\u003e and he presents \u003ci\u003eThe Lebrecht Interview\u003c\/i\u003e series on BBC Radio 3 and \u003ci\u003eThe Record Doctor\u003c\/i\u003e on WNYC. He lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Vienna of Freud, Mahler, Mach, Wittgenstein, Schnitzler, Herzl, Trotsky, and the young Hitler forged the world we know today. It was a meeting point of individualism and collectivism, egotism and idealism, the erotic and the ascetic, the elevated and the debased. At its center whirled Gustav Mahler . . . The man and his music are central to our understanding of the course of civilization and the nature of human relationships.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eArt that is both high and low, original and derived, breathtaking and banal, Mahler’s music resists textbook analysis. It is an open-ended mind game of intellectual and ironic discourse, a voyage of discovery that combines self-revelation, consolation, and renewal . . . Each symphony is a search engine for inner truths. To know Mahler is ultimately to know ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anchor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305296384229,"sku":"NP9781400096572","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781400096572.jpg?v=1767744273","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/why-mahler-isbn-9781400096572","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}