Henry Louis de la Grange (Oxford) April, 2008 Henry-Louis de la Grange’s fourth and final volume in his epic Mahler biography takes a firm, even polemical position on the composer’s American years, and this gives the writing an urgency and thrust that sets it apart from the previous three volumes (a revised and enlarged Volume [...]
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