Norman Lebrecht is one of the most widely read commentators on music and cultural affairs. Based in London, his columns appear in many languages, including Chinese, and he is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 3, Bloomberg and New York's WNYC. He has written 12 books about music, among which The Maestro Myth (1991) and Maestros, Masterpieces and Madness (2007) provoked lasting debate. He is also an award-winning novelist, collecting a Whitbread Prize for The Song of Names in 2002.
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A fascinating celebration of one of the most important classical composers, and one of the most enduringly popular.
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A century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. Displacing Beethoven as a box-office draw, his music offers more than the usual listening satisfactions. Many believe it has the power to heal emotional wounds and ease the pain of death. Others struggle with the intellectual fascination of its contradictory meanings. Long, loud and seldom easy, his symphonies are used to accompany acts of mourning and Hollywood melodramas. Sometimes dismissed as death-obsessed, Mahler is more alive in the 21st century than ever before. Why Mahler? Why does a Jewish musician from a land without a name capture the yearnings and anxieties of post-industrial society? Is it the music, it is the man, or is it the affinity we feel with his productive peak – a decade when Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Joyce and Mahler reconfigured the ways we understand life on earth? In this highly original account of Mahler’s life and work, Norman Lebrecht – renowned writer, critic and cultural commentator - explores the Mahler Effect, a phenomenon that reaches deep into unsuspecting lives, altering the self-perceptions of world leaders, finance chiefs and working musicians. Why Mahler? is a multi-layered exploration of the role that music plays as a soundtrack to our lives.
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評分這場事件的主要人物和情節簡直可以直接拍成電視連續劇。偉大的音樂傢病入膏肓,他的花瓶嬌妻在病床前讀情人的來信。一位醫生在追求她,另一位則上瞭《時代》雜誌的封麵。 他們去巴黎嚮一位科學天纔求助,記者擠破瞭他在布洛涅森林對麵的傢門。偉大的科學傢好心地嚮記者們提供一...
評分這場事件的主要人物和情節簡直可以直接拍成電視連續劇。偉大的音樂傢病入膏肓,他的花瓶嬌妻在病床前讀情人的來信。一位醫生在追求她,另一位則上瞭《時代》雜誌的封麵。 他們去巴黎嚮一位科學天纔求助,記者擠破瞭他在布洛涅森林對麵的傢門。偉大的科學傢好心地嚮記者們提供一...
評分今年是肖邦年。 不,還是舒曼年,巴拉基列夫年,雨果•伍爾夫年,佩爾戈萊西年,塞繆爾•韋斯利年,凱魯比尼年,托馬斯•阿恩年,以及任何生卒年末尾是十或六十的名人的周年。 但從管弦樂音樂會的洶湧數量上看,2010年是馬勒年。還有2011年,馬勒的生卒年分彆是1860年和1...
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