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 ...

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In 1897, after months of intrigue and negotiation, during which Mahler converted to the Roman Catholic faith, he was installed as the Music Director of the Vienna Opera House. This was arguably the ...

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.” ...

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 ...

Why Mahler? How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World. By Norman Lebrecht. Faber; 362 pages; £17.99. To be published in America by Pantheon in October; $27.95. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk ...

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 ...

Although other composers are most suitably celebrated on the anniversaries of their births (July 7, 2010, marked Gustav Mahler’s 150th birthday), it seems appropriate to fete Mahler, the ...

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 ...

IT IS ONLY when speaking of great manifold spirit such as Gustav Mahler, Whose preoccupations so forcefully resonate through our own anxieties and reflections, that the music reviewer feels other than ...