Gustav Mahler's Mental World: A Systematic Representation

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Table of Contents
Preface
Preliminary: The Exploration of Mahler’s Mental World as Precondition for the Exegesis of his Music
I Problems and Positions
	False Doctrine: The View of Mahler’s Symphonies as Absolute Music
	The Dichotomy of the Symphonic Oeuvre and the Withdrawal of the Programs
	Mahler’s Statements about Program Music up to the Munich Declaration
	“Pereat every Program”: the Munich Declaration of 1900 as Turning-Point
	Statements Made after the “Turning-Point”
	Interpretation
	The Doctrine Refuted: Mahler’s Symphonic Poems – Reliability of the Programs – Mahler’s Symphonies as Esoteric Program Music
	Why Mahler seemingly distanced himself from Program Music around 1900
	On the Confusion about the Term “Program Music”
II Education
	The Poet-Composer
	Reading Passion
	Literary Horizon
	Classical Authors
	Shakespeare
	Relation to Goethe
	Goethe Quotations
	On Mahler’s Interpretation of the Chorus mysticus
	Schiller
	Jean Paul
	E. T. A. Hoffmann
	Eichendorff
	Hölderlin
	Wagner’s Writings
	Dostoevsky
	Tolstoy
	Ibsen
	Nietzsche
	Siegfried Lipiner: Friend and Mentor
	Lipiner’s Development
	Topics in Lipiner’s Poetry
	Excursus on Lipiner’s Christus Tetralogy and Weingartner’s Mystery Die Erlösung
	Mahler’s Relations with Lipiner
III Weltanschauung
	Theories of the Jewish Element in Mahler’s Music
	The Jewish Trauma and the Ahasverus Complex
	The “Judeo-Christian”
	Basic Religious-Philosophical Questions – Turn toward Metaphysics
	Epistemological Persuasions: Critique of Materialism; the Discussion about the Concepts of “Energy” and “Matter”; Fr. A. Lange’s Conception; Mahler’s Commitment to Irrationalism
	Belief in the Doctrine of Predestination. Art as Anticipation of Fate
	Belief in Reincarnation: Relations to Goethe’s Theory of Entelechy, to Fechner’s Teachings “about Life after Death” and “the Things of the Afterlife” and to the Pauline Doctrine of the Resurrection
	Mahler and the Cabbalist Doctrine of the Transmigration of Souls
	The Doctrine of Palingenesis in Schönberg’s Jacobsleiter
	Monotheism, or Pantheism? Mahler’s “World Spirit” and Schleiermacher’s Philosophy of Religion
	Christian Dogma and Doctrine
	The Concepts of “Eternal Love” and “Bliss” or Salvation
	Amor, Caritas and Eros, Mercy and Gratia – the Original Conception of the Fourth and the Fifth Symphony
IV Aesthetics
	1. Preliminaries
	2. Art and Life: Music as Autobiography
		The Statements
		Mahler’s Self-Image as Tone Poet
		Experience as Condition of Creation – the Truth Claim of Art
		The Symphonies Autobiographical in Character
	3. Art and Nature: Music as Sound of Nature
		The Statements
		On the Aesthetics of Imitation
		Mahler and the Positions of Hanslick and Liszt
		The Idea of the Music of Nature in E. T. A. Hoffmann and Eichendorff
		The Idea of the Music of Nature in Mahler’s Works
	4. Art and World: Music as Metaphysics
		The Statements
		On Schopenhauer’s and Wagner’s Philosophy of Music and Theory of Dreams
		Mahler’s Reinterpretation of the Schopenhauer-Wagnerian Philosophy of Music: the Metaphysical-Religious Mission of Music
		Music and Religion as Conceived by E. T. A. Hoffmann and Mahler
		Excursus on the Proposition “The Kingdom of Music Is not of This World”
		Universality of Symphonic Music and Musica Mundana
V Symphony and Weltanschauung
	Mahler’s Theory about the Relation between Weltanschauung and Symphonic Music
	The Visionary World of Mahler’s Symphonies
	Demonism and Naiveté: Rubinstein’s Demon and Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel
	Why Mahler Wrote no Operas
	On Some Operatic Plans of Mahler’s
	Mahler’s “Metaphysical Music” in the Mirror of His Time
VI Stage Productions “In the Spirit of Music”
	Mahler and Musical Theater
	Mahler as Visionary of the Operatic Stage
VII “A Musical Physiognomy”: On Theodor W. Adorno’s Mahler Interpretation
Carl Dahlhaus and Mahler’s Programs
Appendix: Two Poems from Lipiner’s Buch der Freude (Re Mahler’s Third Symphony)
Music Facsimiles
Abbreviations
Bibliography
	1. Literary and Philosophical Texts
	2. Literary and Philosophical Criticism
	3. Texts and Writings on Art Theory, Music Aesthetics and Criticism
	4. Documents and Criticism of Gustav Mahler
Index of Persons