On Mahler and Britten

by Reed, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780851156149
• ISBN10: 0851156142
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-05-01
• Publisher: Boydell Pr

Summary

In this Festschriftfor Donald Mitchell, the foremost authority on the life and works of Gustav Mahler and Benjamin Britten, distinguished composers, scholars, colleagues and friends from around the world have written on aspects of these two composers closest to Mitchell's heart, producing a volume which not only reflects some of the latest thinking on this pair of remarkable figures in the music of our century, but which also pays full tribute to the impact of Mitchell's own work on these composers over the last fifty years. The volume includes the fullest bibliography of Mitchell's writings yet compiled.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	viii
List of Abbreviations	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
A Chronology	xiii
Donald Mitchell
Foreword	xvi
Marion Thorpe
I ON MAHLER
Mahler and Viennese Modernism	3	(18)
Paul Banks
Gustav Mahlers Sprache	21	(11)
Herta Blaukopf
Mahler and the BBC	32	(12)
Asa Briggs
Gustav Mahler: Memories and Translations	44	(12)
Peter Franklin
Mahler and the New York Philharmonic: The Truth Behind the Legend	56	(22)
Henry-Louis De La Grange
Mahler on Stamps	78	(7)
Gilbert Kaplan
Mahler and Self-Renewal	85	(4)
Colin Matthews
In Search of Mahler's Childhood	89	(5)
David Matthews
Vestdijk on Mahler, 1924--69; A Symphony in words	94	(7)
Eveline Nikkels
A New Transition: Some Pages from the Third Movement of Mahler's Ninth Symphony	101	(9)
Edward R. Reilly
The Song of the Earth: Some Personal Thoughts	110	(5)
Peter Sculthorpe
Mahler the Factual	115	(4)
Erwin Stein
Mahler and Pfitzner: A Parallel Development	119	(16)
John Williamson
II ON BRITTEN
From no to Nebuchadnezzar	135	(11)
Mervyn Cooke
Britten and His Fellow Composers: Six Footnotes for a Seventieth Birthday	146	(21)
David Drew
Donald Mitchell as Publisher: A Personal Recollection	167	(3)
Peter Du Sautoy
the Key to the Parade	170	(2)
Oliver Knussen
Notes on a Theme from Peter Grimes	172	(14)
Ludmila Kovnatskaya
The Making a Auden's Hymn for St Cecilia's Day	186	(7)
Edward Mendelson
Edinburgh Diary 1968	193	(20)
Kathleen Mitchell
Towards a Genealogy of Death in Venice	213	(16)
Christopher Palmer
Venice, 1954	229	(2)
Myfanwy Piper
On the Sketches for Billy Budd	231	(22)
Philip Reed
`Abraham and Isaac' Revisited: Reflections on a Theme and Its Inversion	253	(14)
Eric Roseberry
Not all the way to the Tigers; Britten's Death in Venice	267	(8)
Edward W. said
A (Far Eastern) Note on Paul Bunyan	275	(5)
Somsak Ketukaenchan
Writing and Copying: A Superficial Survey of Benjamin Britten's Music	280	(10)
Rosamund Strode
Along the Knife-Edge: The Topic of Transcendence in Britten's musical Aesthetic	290	(9)
Arnold Whittall
A Bibliography of Donald Mitchell's Writings, 1945--1995	299	(32)
Maureen Buja
Notes on the Contributors	331	(4)
Index	335
Jill Burrows