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Book SynopsisTrade Review[T]his book is a serious and muchneeded intellectual examination of these two composers and the impact of literary, philosophical, and spiritual interests on their music.
* Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism *
Mahler and Strauss is an important and engaging study that will speak volumes not just to admirers of two consummate artists, but to anyone interested in Austro-German culture around 1900 and its aftermath.
* Austrian Studies *
Mahler and Strauss takes us on a journey that traverses the broader historical and cultural climate of German-speaking Europe at the turn of the twentieth century (with a brief excursion to America along the way). And throughout this journey we are offered a succession of fresh and imaginative readings of the source material that provide us with new ways of understanding the fundamental importance of a profoundly meaningful friendship between two remarkable musicians.
* Nineteenth-Century Music Review *
Thanks to Youmans's lucid style and easy mastery of often dense material, it works well, and the high aesthetic stakes involved are established early.
* The Musical Times *
A fascinating volume . . . It's also an impressive achievement in terms of its scholarship and casts a great deal of light on these two composers, both individually and together.
* Grammophone *
"Along the way, Mahler and Strauss in Dialogue tells a compelling story of the unexpected ways that their worlds overlapped. In so doing, it provides a model for comparative analysis that enriches our understanding of a relationship that indelibly shaped the musical world of their time and continues to fascinate us today."
* German Studies Review *
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgements
Note on Translation
Introduction: Friends
1. Children
2. Conductors
3. Husbands
4. Wagnerians
5. Businessmen
6. Literati
7. Autobiographers
8. Programmmusiker
9. Imports
10. Allusionists
11. Ironists
12. Metaphysicians
Epilogue: Individuals
Bibliography
Index
