Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss: Briefwechsel 1888-1911 (Serie Piper) Second Expanded Edition

Dieser Briefwechsel dokumentiert die tiefe, sich gegenseitig inspirierende Freundschaft zwischen Gustav Mahler und Richard Strauss, die allerdings auch von Rivalitäten nicht frei war. Er bietet außerdem eine Fülle an Informationen über das reiche kulturelle und musikalische Leben um die Jahrhundertwende. Von Mahler sind 63 Briefe verfügbar, von Strauss 28.Von besonderem Interesse: das musikhistorische Nachwort von Herta Blaukopf (Seiten 129-220), das ein Mahler-Strauss-Bild vermittelt, wie es bisher kaum gezeichnet werden konnte. Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss came to know one another as young conductors in Leipzig in 1887. From then until Mahler's death in 1911--the year of the first performance of Der Rosenkavalier--they kept in touch. Mahler himself described their relationship as that of two miners tunneling from opposite directions with the hope of eventually meeting. This publication of their correspondence, which includes twenty-five previously unknown Strauss letters, offers a portrait of two men who were as antithetical in their musical means and goals as in their temperaments and personalities, but who exercised a strong fascination for one another. These sixty-three letters show both composers advancing in their careers as they battled against adverse conditions in the musical world at the turn of the century. They present Mahler's energetic support of Strauss's Symphonia Domestica, which Mahler conducted in 1904 and, in turn, Strauss's championing of Mahler's music, especially the Second and Third Symphonies. The correspondence is fully annotated and is supplemented with a major essay by Herta Blaukopf. Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss ;herausgegeben Und Mit Einem Musikhistorischen Essay Versehen Von Herta Blaukopf. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.