Mahler's Symphonic World Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies One of Waugh's most exuberant

One of Waugh's most exuberant comedies

"—Adib Khorram

Harrisons book makes for very stimulating reading

combining a profound religious spirit with a fascination for idiosyncratic characters

and from the small-town apartment to the dark

Mahler's Symphonic World Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies One of Waugh's most exuberantA new analysis of Mahler's symphonies, placing each within the context of his musical way of being in and experiencing the world. Between 1888 and 1909 Gustav Mahler completed nine symphonies and the orchestral song cycle Das Lied von der Erde; his tenth symphony was left incomplete at his death in 1911. Mahler's Symphonic World provocatively suggests that over his lifetime, the composer pursued a single vision and a single, ideal symphony that