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By Bernd Schabbing. (Musicologica Berolinensia, 9). Berlin: Ernst Kuhn, 2002. [371 p. ISBN 3-928864-86-6. DM 49.95.] Illustrations, bibliography, index.
When we consider Gustav Mahler as a re-creative musician, there is an undeniable tendency to focus solely on his years at the helm of the Vienna Court Opera, from 1897 to 1907. Bernd Schabbing's 2001 Hamburg dissertation, written under the supervision of Constantin Floros and now appearing in print, adds a welcome perspective to the topic by its thorough and fascinating study of Mahler in Hamburg. The Hamburg period (1891-97) was important for Mahler for various reasons. He then had the opportunity to conduct symphonic works with some regularity; he enjoyed close personal and professional relationships with Anna von Mildenburg and Bruno Walter; his success in Hamburg reinforced the admiration influential contemporaries such as Johannes Brahms and Hans von Bulow already had for him; and it served as a successful springboard to the Vienna post. Most importantly, perhaps, it marked a return to regular composition, after something of a block in Budapest, with the completion of the Second and Third Symphonies, the revision of the First, and the composition of...
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