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The Life of Haydn, in a Series of Letters Written at Vienna; Followed by the Life of Mozart
Stendhal
Biographical essays / music criticism / reception history · 1817 · English, translated from French
Stendhal. The Life of Haydn, in a Series of Letters Written at Vienna; Followed by the Life of Mozart. London: John Murray, 1817.
This early music-biographical classic presents Haydn through a sequence of letters and then turns to Mozart, interspersing anecdote, aesthetic judgment and broad comments on European musical life. Stendhal’s enthusiasm gives the book unusual immediacy, but modern scholarship has established that substantial portions were derived from Giuseppe Carpani and…
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Gustav Mahler, Volume II: Vienna: The Years of Challenge (1897–1904)
Henry-Louis de La Grange
Monumental biography, volume II · 1995 · English
Henry-Louis de La Grange. Gustav Mahler, Volume II: Vienna: The Years of Challenge (1897–1904). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 0193151596.
This biography or documentary study follows Gustav Mahler through the personal, professional and cultural circumstances in which the music was created. The dossier links chronology with works, correspondence, institutions, patrons, performers and reception so that the volume can be used both as a narrative biography and as an…
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Gustav Mahler, Volume III: Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion (1904–1907)
Henry-Louis de La Grange
Monumental biography, volume III · 2000 · English
Henry-Louis de La Grange. Gustav Mahler, Volume III: Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion (1904–1907). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 019315160X.
This biography or documentary study follows Gustav Mahler through the personal, professional and cultural circumstances in which the music was created. The dossier links chronology with works, correspondence, institutions, patrons, performers and reception so that the volume can be used both as a narrative biography and as an…
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Gustav Mahler
Jens Malte Fischer
Scholarly biography / cultural history · 2011 · English (translated from German)
Jens Malte Fischer. Gustav Mahler. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011. ISBN 9780300134445.
Fischer’s biography is a large-scale reconstruction of Mahler’s life in which personal history, conducting career, compositional development and the cultural world of fin-de-siècle Vienna are treated as parts of one argument. The English edition is a translation by Stewart Spencer of the 2003 German original. The book makes…
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The Life of Franz Schubert — Volume I
Heinrich Kreissle von Hellborn
Documentary biography / early Schubert scholarship · 1869 · English, translated from German
Heinrich Kreissle von Hellborn. The Life of Franz Schubert — Volume I. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1869.
Kreissle’s work was the first full-length biography of Schubert and drew on testimony from people within the composer’s Viennese circle, including material gathered for an earlier projected biography by Ferdinand Luib. Volume I covers the formative and central years and preserves a large body of early Schubert tradition.
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