Gustav Mahler's mental world : a systematic representation / / Constantin Floros ; translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910155415503321
• Autore: Floros Constantin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Frankfurt am Main, [Germany] : , : PL Academic Research, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 3-653-06401-5; 3-631-69789-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (266 pages)
• Disciplina: 780.92
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: ; I. Problems and Positions -- False Doctrine: The View of Mahler's Symphonies as Absolute Music -- The Dichotomy of the Symphonic Oeuvre and the Withdrawal of the Programs -- Mahler's Statements about Program Music up to the Munich Declaration -- "Pereat every Program": the Munich Declaration of 1900 as Turning-Point -- Statements Made after the "Turning-Point" -- Interpretation -- The Doctrine Refuted: Mahler's Symphonic Poems -- Reliability of the Programs -- Mahler's Symphonies as Esoteric Program Music -- Why Mahler seemingly distanced himself from Program Music around 1900 -- On the Confusion about the Term "Program Music" -- ; II. Education -- The Poet-Composer -- Reading Passion -- Literary Horizon -- Classical Authors -- Shakespeare -- Relation to Goethe -- Goethe Quotations -- On Mahler's Interpretation of the Chorus mysticus -- Schiller -- Jean Paul -- E. T. A. Hoffmann -- Eichendorff -- Holderlin -- Wagner's Writings -- Dostoevsky -- Tolstoy -- Ibsen -- Nietzsche -- Siegfried Lipiner: Friend and Mentor -- $t Lipiner's Development -- Topics in Lipiner's Poetry -- Excursus on Lipiner's Christus Tetralogy and Weingartner's Mystery Die Erlosung -- Mahler's Relations with Lipiner -- ; III. Weltanschauung -- Theories of the Jewish Element in Mahler's Music -- The Jewish Trauma and the Ahasverus Complex -- The "Judeo-Christian" -- $t Basic Religious-Philosophical Questions -- Turn toward Metaphysics -- Epistemological ; Persuasions: Critique of Materialism; the Discussion about the Concepts of "Energy" and "Matter"; Fr. A. Lange's Conception; Mahler's Commitment to Irrationalism -- Belief in the Doctrine of Predestination. Art as Anticipation of Fate -- Belief in Reincarnation: Relations to Goethe's Theory of Entelechy, to Fechner's Teachings "about Life after Death" and "the Things of the Afterlife" and to the Pauline Doctrine of the Resurrection -- Mahler and the Cabbalist Doctrine of the Transmigration of Souls -- The Doctrine of Palingenesis in Schonberg's Jacobsleiter -- Monotheism or Pantheism? Mahler's "World Spirit" and Schleiermacher's Philosophy of Religion -- Christian Dogma and Doctrine -- The Concepts of "Eternal Love" and "Bliss" or Salvation -- Amor, Caritas and Eros, Mercy and Gratia -- the Original Conception of the Fourth and the Fifth Symphony -- ; IV. Aesthetics -- ; 1. Preliminaries -- ; 2. Art and Life: Music as Autobiography -- The Statements -- Mahler's Self-Image as Tone Poet -- Experience as Condition of Creation -- the Truth Claim of Art -- The Symphonies Autobiographical in Character -- ; 3. Art and Nature: Music as Sound of Nature -- The Statements -- On the Aesthetics of Imitation -- Mahler and the Positions of Hanslick and Liszt -- The Idea of the Music of Nature in E. T. A. Hoffmann and Eichendorff -- The Idea of the Music of Nature in Mahler's Works -- ; 4. Art and World: Music as Metaphysics -- The Statements -- On Schopenhauer's and Wagner's Philosophy of Music and Theory of Dreams -- Mahler's Reinterpretation of the Schopenhauer-Wagnerian Philosophy of Music: the Metaphysical-Religious Mission of Music -- Music and Religion as Conceived by E. T. A. Hoffmann and Mahler -- Excursus on the Proposition "The Kingdom of Music Is not of This World" -- Universality of Symphonic Music and Musica Mundana -- ; V. Symphony and Weltanschauung -- Mahler's Theory about the Relation between Weltanschauung and Symphonic Music -- The Visionary World of Mahler's Symphonies -- Demonism and Naivete: Rubinstein's Demon and Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel -- Why Mahler Wrote no Operas -- On Some Operatic Plans of Mahler's -- Mahler's "Metaphysical Music" in the Mirror of His Time -- ; VI. Stage Productions "In The Spirit of Music" -- Mahler and Musical Theater -- Mahler as Visionary of the Operatic Stage -- ; VII. "A Musical Physiognomy": On Theodor W. Adorno's Mahler Interpretation -- Carl Dahlhaus and Mahler's Programs -- Appendix: Two Poems from Lipiner's Buch der Freude (Re Mahler's Third Symphony) -- Music Facsimiles -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- ; 1. Literary and Philosophical Texts -- ; 2. Literary and Philosophical Criticism -- ; 3. Texts and Writings on Art Theory, Music Aesthetics and Criticism -- ; 4. Documents and Criticism of Gustav Mahler.