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...thoroughness, of Germany's musical life along strictly Nazi lines. Dominant in the official Nazi attitude toward music were: 1) the Nazi theories of race, 2) Nazi objections to all satirical, "unwholesome" or experimental types of art. Public performance of works by Jewish composers like Mendelssohn and Gustav Mahler was banned. Likewise banned (though somewhat less systematically) were the discordant works of atonalists and other modernist composers...
...living in London, Franz Peter Schubert's grandniece talks easily of how, when a student, she heard Composer-Pianist Franz Liszt play in Budapest in 1870, heard Composer Richard Wagner conduct in Vienna in 1876. Fellow students with her were Conductor Artur Nikisch and Composer-Conductor Gustav Mahler (TIME, Feb. 7). She heard Russian Pianist Anton Rubinstein (Melody in F), Spanish Violinist Pablo de Sarasate (Zigeunerweisen), took piano lessons from Clara Schumann, gifted wife of Composer Robert Schumann...
...GUSTAV MAHLER: ICH BIN DER WELT ABHANDEN GEKOMMEN (Contralto Kerstin Thorborg and Vienna Philharmonic; Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia). A beautiful item added to the meagre list of available Mahler discs...
...clatter that had marred his earlier "May Day" Symphony (No. 3). returned to the vitality and sincerity of the First Symphony which made him famous ten years ago. Dominant influences observable in it were not those of post-War modernists but of such romantic symphonists as the late Gustav Mahler...
...Mahler's large symphonic works are available for the phonograph, both recorded from concert performances: Das Lied von der Erde and Second ("Resurrection") Symphony...