The Cambridge Companion to Mahler

We can all think of those many composers whose works were often performed in their lifetime, but suffered neglect in the years after their deaths, only to be revived considerably later. Mahler was such an example, and although, especially in The Netherlands and the USA, there had been a continuing interest during the first half of the twentieth century, it was not until comparatively later that his music became much better known. In this companion a chapter on the International Gustav Mahler Society records that its archive of concert programmes was enormously expanded from the 1970s.

This well‐argued companion considers...