On the occasion of Mahler’s 150th birthday a Gustav Mahler anthology has now been published in Italian. Thanks to the comments of those who admired and respected him, the anthology plays a valuable role in keeping his spirit alive.

Il mio tempo verrà

The figures quoted include musicologists, musicians, authors and great thinkers, all of them united by their deep passion for and their profound knowledge of Mahler.

Ernst Bloch, Richard Strauss, Arthur Schnitzler, Thomas Mann, Arnold Schönberg, Alma Mahler, Theodor W. Adorno, Glenn Gould, Leonard Bernstein, Daniel Barenboim and Claudia Abbado are just some of the great names selected by Gastón Fournier-Facio, the artistic coordinator of the Teatro alla Scala; names that contribute to creating a living image of the master and a careful analysis of his works.

Gustav Mahler. Il mio tempo verrà
La sua musica raccontata da critici, scrittori e interpreti 1901-2010
A cura di Gastón Fournier-Facio

Gustav Mahler’s 8th Symphony, the “Symphony of a Thousand”, opens the 2010 BBC Proms tonight. Jiří Bělohlávek conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the joint forces of six choirs.

The concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 at 20:00 British Summer Time (21:00 in Paris). Listen online.

See all Mahler concerts at this year’s Proms.

See also: Mahler’s total eclipse of the heart (Tom Service, The Guardian)

We’ve just received the details about the forthcoming film Mahler on the Couch, directed by Percy Adlon and Felix Adlon.

MAHLER AUF DER COUCH

Release date Germany/Austria July 7th 2010
A new film by Percy Adlon and Felix Adlon
A genius composer, his wife, her lover … and Sigmund Freud

Barbara Romaner as Alma
Johannes Silberschneider as Gustav Mahler
Karl Markovics as Sigmund Freud
Friedrich Mücke as Walter Gropius
Eva Mattes as Anna Moll
Lena Stolze as Justine Mahler-Rosé
and
Nina Berten as Anna von Mildenburg

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Gustav Mahler snatched Alma under the noses of Vienna’s artistic elite, but ten years of marriage and the death of one child have exacerbated the strains caused by the 19 year gap in their ages, and Mahler’s refusal to allow Alma to write music (“I need a wife, not a colleague”). While staying at a spa resort, Alma falls in love with Walter Gropius, five years her junior. Tormented, Mahler seeks advice from Sigmund Freud. The encounter of the two giants of music and psychoanalysis is bumpy, temperamental, and not without humor.

“Leider bleibe ich ein eingefleischter Wiener”*

It is with these words that the Austrian Theatre Museum has titled its new exhibition on the life and music of Gustav Mahler, celebrating his 150th birthday. The exhibition was curated by Reinhold Kubik und Thomas Trabitsch, in cooperation with Universal Edition.

Visitors to the exhibition can view all 15 video interviews with conductors which were made for this blog.

The exhibition runs until 3 October 2010.

(* I regrettably remain Viennese through and through)

(German only – translate with Google)

In Zusammenarbeit mit der Internationalen Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft, dem ORF-Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien und dem Wiener Konzerthaus schreibt der Österreichische Komponistenbund aus Anlass der Mahlerjahre 2010/11 (150. Geburtstag, 100. Todestag) einen internationalen Kompositionswettbewerb aus, der Komponistinnen und Komponisten des 21. Jahrhunderts ohne Altersbegrenzung einlädt, Werke in jenen drei Kategorien einzureichen, für die Gustav Mahler Kompositionen geschaffen hat: (more…)

Butler University has now announced the full programme of its Mahler Project during the years 2009 and 2010, with lectures, readings and concerts.

The New York Philharmonic (Mahler’s orchestra from 1909-1911) has launched an online database of their whole performance history.

Use the search to find the first concert Mahler gave at the Philharmonic (Sunday 29 November 1908, 3pm!) and see even the works performed in each concert.

On the Philharmonic’s Mahler Symphonies page you can also view their historic score of Mahler’s 1st Symphony (takes a while to load, but it’s worth it).

Our new blog is where we are publishing all information regarding performances, festivals, interviews, new editions, recordings and reviews up to and during the two Mahler anniversary years 2010 and 2011, and where we are pointing to content about Gustav Mahler on the internet.

If you are planning an activity related to Gustav Mahler in the anniversary years (or in the run up), let us know, and we will publish it here.

We have published various documents on Mahler and his music on our website, including thematic analyses by Richard Specht and Josef Venantius von Wöss.

Gustav Mahler @ Universal Edition

Brod, Max: Gustav Mahlers jüdische Melodien. 1920 (10) S. 378 ff.
Bauer-Lechner, Natalie: Mahler-Aussprüche. 1920 (7–8) S. 306–309.
Wiesengrund-Adorno, Theodor: Mahler heute. Gustav Mahler. 1930 (3) S. 86–92.
Wellesz, Egon: Mahlers Instrumentation. Gustav Mahler. 1930 (3) S. 106–110.
Mahler, Alma Maria: Mahlers unvollendete Symphonie. 1923 (10) S. 281.
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