’ Gustav Mahlers Symphonic Landscapes In this study Thomas Peattie offers a new account of Mahler’s symphonies by considering the composer’s reinvention of the genre in light of his career as a conductor and more broadly in terms of his sustained engagement with the musical, theatrical, and aesthetic traditions of the Austrian fin de siècle. Drawing on the ideas of landscape, mobility, and theatricality, Peattie creates a rich interdisciplinary framework that reveals the uniqueness of Mahler’s symphonicidiomanditsradicalattitudetowardsthepresentationand orderingofmusicalevents.Thebookgoesontoidentifyafundamental tension between the music’s episodic nature and its often-noted narrative impulse and suggests that Mahler’s symphonic dramaturgy canbeunderstoodasaformofabstracttheatre. thomas peattie is Assistant Professor of Music at Boston University. His articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of theRoyalMusicalAssociation,ActaMusicologica,MusicandLetters, and Naturlaut. His essay “In Search of Lost Time: Memory and Mahler’sBrokenPastoral”appearsinthecollectionMahlerandHis World (2002). His research interests include the Austro-German symphony, Gustav Mahler, early modernism, sound reproduction, auditoryculture,aesthetics,andhistoriography. ’ Gustav Mahler s Symphonic Landscapes thomas peattie UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107027084 ©ThomasPeattie2015 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2015 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Peattie,ThomasAllan,1967– GustavMahler’ssymphoniclandscapes/ThomasPeattie. pages cm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-107-02708-4 1. Mahler,Gustav,1860-1911.Symphonies. 2. Symphonies–Analysis,appreciation. 3. Mahler,Gustav,1860-1911–Criticismandinterpretation. I. Title. ML410.M23P43 2015 784.2ʹ184092–dc23 2014043419 ISBN978-1-107-02708-4Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. For my parents Contents Listoffigures [pageviii] Acknowledgements [ix] Introduction:HearingMahler [1] 1 Theexpansionofsymphonicspace [11] 2 “Distantmusic” [47] 3 Alpinejourneys [81] 4 Symphonicpanoramas [116] 5 Wanderers [152] Bibliography [191] Index [213] vii Figures 1 GustavMahler,SymphonyNo.1,fourthmovement,rehearsal26. Copyist’smanuscript.TheGustavMahler–AlfredRoséCollection. MusicLibrary,WesternUniversity,London,Canada. [page61] 2 AlexanderRobertson,ThroughtheDolomites.2nded.London: GeorgeAllen,1903.CourtesyofHarvardCollegeLibrary, ImagingServices. [88] 3 JosephMallordWilliamTurner,Rain,Steam,andSpeed–TheGreat WesternRailway,1844.Oiloncanvas.91×121.8cm.©National Gallery,London/ArtResource,NewYork. [120] 4 AdolfMenzel,DieBerlin-PotsdamerEisenbahn[TheBerlin PotsdamRailway],1847.Oiloncanvas.42×52cm.PhotoCredit: bpk,Berlin/Nationalgalerie/JoergP.Anders/ArtResource, NewYork. [121] 5 HonoréDaumier,Lewagondetroisièmeclasse[TheThird-Class Carriage],c.1862–64.©MetropolitanMuseumofArt, NewYork. [123] 6 Unknownphotographer,[GustavMahler].1904.Reproduced fromTheMahlerAlbum,GilbertKaplan,Editor. [168] 7 AntonKolm,[GustavMahler].1904.©Bildarchivder ÖsterreichischenNationalbibliothek,Vienna. [169] viii