Gustav Mahler: Volume 2. Vienna: The Years of Challenge (1897-1904) - La Grange, Henry-Louis de (President, President, Bibliotheque musicale Gustav Mahler, Paris)

This is the second volume of de La Grange's monumental study of the life and music of Gustav Mahler. Thirty years of research and a vast array of documentary material are here co-ordinated. It also discusses many popular works he wrote in this period: the Fourth and Fifth Symphonies, and the Wunderhorn-, Ruckert-, and Kindertotenleider.