Alma Mahler-Werfel: the Diaries 1898-1902 - Hardcover

Mahler-Werfel, Alma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571193404 ISBN 13: 9780571193400

Publisher: Cornell Univ Press, 1998

Synopsis

The original manuscript of these diaries, which present an eye-witness record of historical events in the worlds of art and music at the turn of the century, lay unread in the library of an American university until Antony Beaumont read it in search of the truth about Mahler-Werfel and Zemlinsky. But he found more: an account, in intimate detail, of the four years during which Mahler-Werfel grew from adolescence into womanhood. Opening with her first, heady affair with Klimt, the diaries break off shortly before her marriage to Mahler. They portray the vitality of everyday life, descriptions of significant artistic events, and insights into the behavioural patterns and linguistic conventions of the Vienna of 1900.

About this title

About the Author:

Antony Beaumont was born in London and studied at King's College, Cambridge. He now lives in Germany where he is active as a conductor, lecturer, and freelance musicologist. In 1992, Beaumont was commissioned by the Hamburg State Opera to complete the orchestration of Zemlinsky's last opera, Der Konig Kandaules. Premiered in 1996, the work has since been staged by several other opera companies, recorded and televised. Beaumont has also edited and (where necessary) reconstructed several other major works from the composer's posthumous papers at the Library of Congress.Antony Beaumont is author of Busoni the Composer (Faber, 1985). He co-edited (with Susanne Rode-Breymann) Alma Mahler-Werfel's Diaries 1898-1902, his English translation of which was published to great acclaim by Faber in 1998.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cornell Univ Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0571193404
• ISBN 13: 9780571193400
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 514