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 ...

For Gustav Mahler, scholarship is much more recent, and heavily indebted to the work of French-American scholar Henry Louis de La Grange. Born in 1924 to a French aristocrat and an American heiress, ...

During the last 25 years or so, most musicians would say Leonard Bernstein, who started a Mahler binge in the 1960s and has shown no signs of letting up. But close on his heels has been Henry-Louis de ...

Norman Lebrecht, in his new book, “Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World,” speaks of “Mahler’s capacity to pierce human defenses.” And it is certainly true that Mahler’s music ...

On Gustav Mahler: A Life in Crisis, by Stuart Feder. For Mahler, the customer was always wrong. He likewise squelched her youthful composing ambitions: “The role of composer falls to me—yours is that ...

Faber has bought the rights to a title on the life and works of composer Gustav Mahler. Belinda Matthews, editorial director at Faber, bought UK and Commonwealth rights from Jonny Geller at Curtis ...