Gustav Mahler was an artist of gigantic ambitions, and Jens Malte Fischer's biography, available in English a decade after it was first published in Germany, is on a comparable scale. At 766 pages, it ...

ALMA MAHLER: OR THE ART OF BEING LOVED. Francoise Giroud. Oxford University Press. 162 pages. $21.95. English-reading audiences have waited 10 years for Henry-Louis de la Grange (of mixed ...

From a vast and mysterious opera rehearsal stage (Gustav Mahler's "home away from home" for much of his life), San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) introduces us to the ...

Psychiatrist Feder (Charles Ives: My Father's Song) proves himself adept at delineating the emotional themes of Mahler's life and compositions in this psychoanalytic biography. Central to the project ...

Why Mahler? How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World. By Norman Lebrecht. Faber; 362 pages; £17.99. To be published in America by Pantheon in October; $27.95. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk ...