Edited by Elisabeth Kappel

For admirers of Gustav Mahler's masterpiece 8th Symphony, editor Elisabeth Kappel and the Studien zur Wertungsforschung present a compilation of essays, which discuss the great work in various contexts and approaches. Delve deep into the collective consciousness, as it reacts to Mahler's finest work. Paperback edition, 240 pages, 5½" x 8".

Contents:

Kappel, Elisabeth: Preface
Roman, Zoltan: The 'Creative Spirit', Faust, and Mahler's Eight Symphony: From Medieval to Modern in 80 Minutes
Wildhagen, Christian: "It Must Have Something Cosmic about It": The Intellectual and Spiritual Universe of Mahler's Eight Symphony
Dorschel, Andreas: Individualism for the Masses: Aesthetic Paradox in Mahler's Symphonic Thought
Barham, Jeremy: 'A Time of Gifts': Mahler's Eight, Fassbinder's Cinema, and Musical Politics
Painter, Karen: From Zionism to Assimilation: Theodor Herzl, Gustav Mahler, and the Aesthetics of Redemption
Krones, Hartmut: Two Languages – One Symphony: Mahler's Eight
Kappel, Elisabeth: "A Single Tremendously Long and Wide Thought": The Orchestral Introduction to Part 2 of Mahler's Eight Symphony
Aringer, Klaus: Technique and Aesthetics of Mahler's Large Orchestra
Deaville, James: Goethes's Faust in the Austro-German Musical Imagination of the 19th Century
McClatchie, Stephen: The Wagnerian Roots of Mahler's Eighth Symphony
Williamson, John: Mahler, Pfitzner and the Relationship between Symphony and Cantata
Wright, James: "Building a New World": Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schönberg (ca. 1905–1911)
Korte, Oliver: Macrocosm – Microcosm: About the Influence of Gustav Mahler's Eighth Symphony on the Work of Anton Webern
Revers, Peter: "A Work of Art of Higher Artistic Order": The Eighth as Mahler's 'Gesamtkunstwerk'