Books in the Gustav Mahler series

This is the second volume of de La Grange's monumental study of the life and music of Gustav Mahler. Thirty years of research and a vast array of documentary material are here co-ordinated. It also discusses many popular works he wrote in this period: the Fourth and Fifth Symphonies, and the Wunderhorn-, Ruckert-, and Kindertotenleider.

This text covers the years 1904-1907 and shows Mahler in his final years at the Hofoper coping with the demands on his energy and creative powers of the Opera and his struggle for recognition as a composer in his own right, and shows the first signs of marital difficulties with Alma emerge.