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Article: Gustav Mahler: Letters to his Wife.(Book Review)
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Gustav Mahler: Letters to his Wife. Edited by Henry-Louis de la Grange and Gunter Weiss in collaboration with Knud Martner. First complete edition revised and translated by Antony Beaumont. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995, 2004. [xxvii, 431 p. ISBN 0-8014-4340-7. $40.] Illustrations, bibliography, indexes.
The relationship between Gustav Mahler and his wife Alma remains a fascinating part of the composer's biography for the insights it gives to his works. Mahler dedicated his Eighth Symphony to his wife, and supposedly attempted to depict her in one of the themes of his Sixth Symphony. For these and other reasons, Alma was a force in Gustav's life, and he ...