Gustav Mahler’s Sound
Between Compositional Process, Performance, and Reception
Mahler Dimensions, Volume 1
edited by Tobias Janz und Christian Utz
Wien, Hollitzer-Verlag 2026, https://doi.org/10.83452/9783990946893
https://www.hollitzer.at/en/book/gustav-mahlers-klang-gustav-mahlers-sound
FWF E-Library: https://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:2121
Gustav Mahler’s sound is unmistakable yet defies easy definition. The essays by international authors collected here present it as a multifaceted phenomenon that spans composition, performance, technical reproduction, and the listener’s reception. The volume emerged from the research project “Multiple Dimensions in Performances of Mahler's Symphonies” and the Toblach Symposium “Gustav Mahler's Sound: Between Compositional Process, Performance, and Reception.” It opens up new perspectives on the analysis, sources, history of interpretation, and mediatization of Mahler’s music. The book examines instrumentation, timbre, dynamics and tempo, as well as philological questions and immersive listening formats. The result is a multifaceted panorama of current Mahler research that sheds new light on the aesthetic fascination of Mahler’s sound and its enduring impact on musical perception, performance culture, and media history. This highlights the ongoing relevance of Mahler’s music today.
Research findings from: https://doi.org/10.55776/P34710 (FWF)
Published with the support of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): https://doi.org/10.55776/PUB1347
Inhaltsverzeichnis | Table of Contents
Tobias Janz & Christian Utz
Einleitung
https://doi.org/10.83452/9783990946893_01
Introduction
https://doi.org/10.83452/9783990946893_02
KLANGANALYSE | SOUND ANALYSIS
Karol Berger
Mahlers Klangdramaturgie
https://doi.org/10.83452/9783990946893_03
Tobias Janz
Mahlers Orchesterklang analysieren: Zugänge zur Sechsten Symphonie und zu den Kindertotenliedern
https://doi.org/10.83452/9783990946893_04
Emily I. Dolan
The Mahlerian Shape of Timbre Studies
https://doi.org/10.83452/9783990946893_05
Jack Adler-McKean
Tuba contra Bombardon: Gustav Mahler und der tiefe Blechbläserklang des Orchesters
https://doi.org/10.83452/9783990946893_06
Klaus Aringer
Chorische Hornbehandlung in Gustav Mahlers Orchester
https://doi.org/10.83452/9783990946893_07
Dimitrios Katharopoulos
„Wechsel und Gegensätzlichkeit“: Formale Architektur und Klangdramaturgie in Gustav Mahlers Symphonien
https://doi.org/10.83452/9783990946893_08
Fredrica Roos
Amongst the Topics of Darkness and Light: Mahler's Music as Sound-World
https://doi.org/10.83452/9783990946893_09
Sam Reenan
Queering Mahler's Orchestration
https://doi.org/10.83452/9783990946893_10
Federico Celestini
“Undomesticated” Sounds in Gustav Mahler's First Symphony
https://doi.org/10.83452/9783990946893_11
QUELLEN UND SCHAFFENSPROZESS |
SOURCES AND CREATIVE PROCESS
Nikolaus Urbanek
The Philology of Sound
https://doi.org/10.83452/9783990946893_12
Anna Ficarella
Sound in Mahler's Workshop: An Attempt at Genetic Textual Criticism of the Fifth Symphony
https://doi.org/10.83452/9783990946893_13
Peter Revers
Mahlers „Chorus mysticus“ im Wandel der Kompositions- und Interpretationsgeschichte:
Aspekte der Revisionen und Tempokonzeptionen in der Achten Symphonie
https://doi.org/10.83452/9783990946893_14
AUFFÜHRUNG UND INTERPRETATIONSGESCHICHTE |
PERFORMANCE AND PERFORMANCE HISTORY
Christian Utz
Zeit und Klang in Deutungen des Kopfsatzes von Gustav Mahlers Siebter Symphonie:
Perspektiven der Korpusforschung auf Interpretationsgeschichte und Performanceanalyse
https://doi.org/10.83452/9783990946893_15
Julian Caskel
Kontrastverschärfung als Mittel des Kontrapunkts:
Zur Differenzierung der dynamischen Vortragsbezeichnungen bei Gustav Mahler
https://doi.org/10.83452/9783990946893_16
Anna Stoll Knecht
„Singen“ in Wien – „nicht singen“ in Bayreuth:
Richard Wagners Theorie der Interpretation, Cosima Wagners Aufführungspraxis und ihre Bedeutung für Gustav Mahler
https://doi.org/10.83452/9783990946893_17
Lóránt Péteri
“Mr. Mahler at the Harpsichord”: Mahler, Bach, and America
https://doi.org/10.83452/9783990946893_18
MEDIATISIERTER KLANG | MEDIATIZED SOUND
Anne Holzmüller
Mahler, der Zeitgemäße: Mahlers Klang im Spiegel gegenwärtiger Hörästhetiken
https://doi.org/10.83452/9783990946893_19
Minoru Shimizu
Mahler und die audiophile Kultur
https://doi.org/10.83452/9783990946893_20
Edwin K. C. Li
Mishearing Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde
https://doi.org/10.83452/9783990946893_21
Robert Samuels
“Music that I think I love more than any other”: Benjamin Britten’s Encounter with the Sound of Gustav Mahler
https://doi.org/10.83452/9783990946893_22
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