Thomas Peattie provides a richly interdisciplinary account of Gustav Mahler's music, considering the theatrical dimension of his symphonies and situating these works in the context of the musical, theatrical, and aesthetic traditions of the Austrian fin de sià cle.
Thomas Peattie provides a richly interdisciplinary account of Gustav Mahler's music, considering the theatrical dimension of his symphonies and situating these works in the context of the musical, theatrical, and aesthetic traditions of the Austrian fin de sià cle.
Thomas Peattie is Assistant Professor of Music at Boston University. His articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Acta Musicologica, Music and Letters, and Naturlaut. His essay 'In Search of Lost Time: Memory and Mahler's Broken Pastoral' appears in the collection Mahler and his World (2002). His research interests include the Austro-German symphony, Gustav Mahler, early modernism, sound reproduction, auditory culture, aesthetics, and historiography.
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Introduction: hearing Mahler 1. The expansion of symphonic space 2. Distant music 3. Alpine journeys 4. Symphonic panoramas 5. The wanderer.
