Gustav Mahler: Volume 4, A new life cut short (1907-1911)

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Introduction

1.

Mahler in New York (I)

Discovering the New World

New York in 1908

The Metropolitan Opera and Heinrich Conried

Tristan and Don Giovanni (January-February 1908)

2.

Mahler in New York (II)

The end of the season at the Metropolitan

Die Walkure, Siegfried, and Fidelio

Philadelphia and Boston

Return to Europe

Concerts in Wiesbaden and Prague

Toblach and Das Lied von der Erde (March-August 1908)

3.

Mahler in New York (III)

Premiere of the Seventh Symphony

Concerts in Munich and Hamburg

Return to New York

Concerts with the Symphony

Opening of the Metropolitan season (September-December 1908)

4.

Mahler in New York (IV)

Figaro and Bartered Bride

Farewell to the Metropolitan

The New York Philharmonic

Two weeks in Paris: Rodin

Contract with Universal Edition

Schoenberg and Varese (January-June 1909)

5.

Mahler in New York (V)

Summer in Toblach

The Ninth Symphony

The last journey to the Netherlands

The New York Philharmonic (June-December 1909)

6.

Mahler in New York (VI)

Social life there

Second half of the first Philharmonic season

Busoni as soloist

The Weiss scandal

At the Met: Pique Dame

Tour of New England

Mahler interviewed (January-March 1910)

7.

Mahler in New York (VII)

Back in Europe

The Second Symphony in Paris

Disaster in Rome

Rehearsals for the Eighth Symphony in Vienna, Leipzig, and Munich (April-July 1910)

8.

Mahler in New York (VIII)

Alma's betrayal

The tragic summer of 1910

The Tenth Symphony

Consultation with Freud (July-August 1910)

9.

Mahler in New York (IX)

Munich: Triumph of the Eighth Symphony

Vienna, autumn of 1910

Paintings by Schoenberg

The second Philharmonic season

Tour to the Great Lakes

The holidays in New York (September-December 1910)

10.

Mahler in New York (X)

Plans for the next season

Mahler conducts a revised Fourth

Crisis with the Guarantors' Committe

Mahler and the New York Philharmonic: A final assessment (January-February 1911)

Epilogue. Mahler's illness and death

New York

Paris

Vienna (21 February-18 May 1911)

Appendix 1A. Catalogue of Works

Appendix 1Ba. Das Lied von der Erde: A Symphony for Tenor and Alto (or Baritone) Voice and Orchestra (1908)

Appendix 1Bb. The Ninth Symphony in D major (1909)

Appendix 1Bc. The Unfinished Tenth Symphony in F Sharp (1910)

Appendix 1Ca. Works Revised by Mahler: Symphonic Works

Appendix 1Cb. Works Revised by Mahler: Operas

Appendix 1D. Apocryphal Work: A Symphonic Prelude by Mahler?

Appendix 1Ea. Unfinished Works and Sketches: Three Unknown Sketches

Appendix 1Eb. The Sketchbook in the Mildenburg Collection

Appendix 1F. Why did Mahler not Write an Opera?

Appendix 1G. Transcriptions and Arrangements of Mahler's Works

Appendix 1H. How to Approach Mahler's Art, by Georg Gohler

Appendix 1I. The Sixth Symphony (The Order of Movements)

Appendix 2Aa. Soloists who Played or Sang in Mahler's Concerts; Cities where he Conducted Concerts, and his Concert Repertoire

Appendix 2Ab. Programmes Prepared by Mahler for the New York Philharmonic and Conducted during his Last Illness by Theodore Spiering

Appendix 2Ac. The Orchestra and its Instruments in Mahler's Time

Appendix 2B. Mahler as a Performer of his Own Works (The Piano Rolls and their Transfer to Disc)

Appendix 3Aa. After Mahler's Death: Letters of Condolence

Appendix 3Ab. Obituary Articles

Appendix 3Ac. Freud on Mahler (in Marie Bonaparte's Diary), Original German Version

Appendix 3Ad. A Performance History of Mahler's Works

Appendix 3Ae. The Survival of Alma's Collection after the Bombing of her House on the hohe Warte

Appendix 3Af. Mahler Mythomania

Appendix 3Ag. Mahler's Posthumous Triumph in America: Stokowski's 1916 Performances of the Eighth Symphony

Appendix 3Ba. Poems Copied by Mahler

Appendix 3Bb. A Dedication in Verse to Countess Wydenbruck's Daughter

Appendix 3C. Following Mahler's Track

Appendix 3D. Mahler's Beliefs (Fechner and Hartmann)

Appendix 3E. Rodin's Three Busts of Mahler

Appendix 3F. Relative Value of Currencies in Mahler's Time

Appendix 3G. Alma Mahler: A Chronology of her Life after Mahler's Death, 1911 to 1964

Appendix 3H. Alma Mahler's Lieder

Appendix 3I. Recipe for Mahler's Favourite Dessert: Marillenknodel (Apricot Dumplings)

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