Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
1 What Did Mahler Look Like? An Attempt at a Description 1
2 Small Steps: Kalischt and Iglau (1860-75) 12
3 Studies in Vienna (1875-80) 42
4 The Summer Conductor: Bad Hall (1880) 90
5 Emotional Ups and Downs in Laibach (1881-2) 99
6 For the Last Time in the Provinces: Olmutz (1882-3) 108
7 Presentiment and a New Departure: Kassel (1883-5) 114
8 The Avid Reader: Mahler and Literature 125
9 Becoming Mahler: Prague (1885-6) 140
10 The First Symphony 148
11 Life's Vicissitudes: Leipzig (1886-8) 157
12 Notes on Mahler's Songs 168
13 Lowland Dreams: Budapest (1888-91) 178
14 The Conductor 191
15 The Second Symphony 202
16 Self-Realization: Hamburg (1891-7) 208
17 Jewishness and Identity 251
18 The Third Symphony 274
19 The God of the Southern Climes: Vienna (1897-1901) 282
20 Mahler's Illnesses: A Pathographical Sketch 321
21 The Fourth Symphony 333
22 Vienna in 1900: Alma as a Young Woman (1901-3) 340
23 The Fifth Symphony 385
24 'Nothing is lost to you': Faith and Philosophy 392
25 The Sixth Symphony 409
26 Opera Reform - Early Years of Marriage - Mahler's Compositional Method (1903-5) 416
27 The Seventh Symphony 458
28 The Administrator - Contemporaries - Signs of Crisis (1905-7) 464
29 The Eighth Symphony 519
30 Annus Terribilis (1907) 527
31 Das Lied von der Erde 562
32 Starting Afresh: New York (1908-11) 568
33 The Ninth Symphony 611
34 Crisis and Culmination (1910) 620
35 The Fragmentary Tenth Symphony 662
36 'My heart is weary' - The Farewell 666
37 Mahler and Posterity 691
List of Abbreviations 707
Notes 709
Select Bibliography 734
Index 740
Acknowledgements 765