On Mahler and Britten Carl Friedrich Abel

Titel (DE): On Mahler and Britten - Essays in Honour of Donald Mitchell on His Seventieth Birthday
Titel (EN): On Mahler and Britten - Essays in Honour of Donald Mitchell on His Seventieth Birthday
Titel (FR): On Mahler and Britten - Essays in Honour of Donald Mitchell on His Seventieth Birthday
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These studies were first published to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Donald Mitchell, the foremost authority on the life and works of Gustav Mahler and Benjamin Britten. They are the work of distinguished composers, scholars, colleagues and friends from around the world, and reflect much of the latest thinking on this pair of remarkable figures in the music of our century.

List of Illustrations - List of Abbreviations - Acknowledgements - Donald Mitchell: A Chronology - Marion Thorpe: Foreword - Paul Banks: Mahler and Viennese Modernism-Herta Blaukopf: Gustav Mahlers Sprache - Asa Briggs: Mahler and the BBC - Peter Franklin: Gustav Mahler: Memories and Translations - Henry-Louis de la Grange: Mahler and the New York Philharmonic. The Truth Behind the Legend - Gilbert Kaplan: Mahler on Stamps - Colin Matthews: Mahler and Self-Renewal - David Matthews: In Search of Mahler's Childhood - Eveline Nikkels: Vestdijk on Mahler, 1924-69. A Symphony in Words - Edward R. Reilly: A New Transition. Some Pages from the Third Movement of Mahler's Ninthe Symphony - Peter Sculthorpe: The Song of the Earth. Some Personal Thoughts - Erwin Stein: Mahler the Factual - John Williamson: Mahler and Pfitzner. A Parallel Development - Mervyn Cooke: From Nõ to Nebuchadnezzar - David Drew: Britten and His Fellow Composers. Six Footnotes for a Seventieth Birthday - Peter Du Sautoy: Donald Mitchell as Publisher. A Personal Recollection - Oliver Knussen: The Key to the Parade - Ludmila Kovnatskaya: Notes on a Theme from Peter Grimes - Edward Mendelson: The Making of Auden's Hymn for St Cecilia's Day - Kathleen Mitchell: Edinburgh Diary 1968 - Christopher Palmer: Towards a Genealogy of Death in Venice - Myfanwy Piper: Venice, 1954 - Philip Reed: On the Sketches for Billy Budd - Eric Roseberry: "Abraham and Isaac" Revisited. Reflections on a Theme and Its Inversion - Edward W. Said: Not All the Way to the Tigers. Britten's Death in Venice - Somsak Ketukaenchan: A (Far Eastern) Note on Paul Bunyan - Rosamund Strode: Writing and Copying. A Superficial Survey of Benjamin Britten's Music - Arnold Whittall: Along the Knife-Edge. The Topic of Transcendence in Britten's Musical Aesthetic - Maureen Buja: A Bibliography of Donald Mitchell's Writings, 1945-1995 - Notes on the Contributors - Jill Burrows: Index