The long-awaited English-language version of Henry-Louis de La Grange's Volume One is to be released on 29 May 2020. The bad news is that Amazon.com shows a pre-order price of $195.00 plus tax. Beneath the author's name on the cover is the phrase "completed, revised and edited by Sybille Werner."
For anyone interested in comparing it with the 1973 version, here is its Table of Contents (with page numbers in bold):
Introduction ix
List of Illustrations xi
Abbreviations of Frequently-Cited Sources xiii
Chapter 1
Background – Family – Origins 1
Chapter 2
Iglau – Childhood: In Search of Himself and the World (1860-1874) 25
Chapter 3
The Conservatory – Matura – University (i) (1875-1878) 55
Chapter 4
The Conservatory – University (ii) – Mahler’s Circle of Friends – Vienna in
the 1870s – Wagner, Brahms, and Bruckner – Das klagende Lied (i) (1876-1878) 85
Chapter 5
The Intermediate Years – An Unsettled Existence: Poverty and Passion
Mahler in Search of Himself – Siegfried Lipiner
A Thwarted Love Affair: Josephine Poisl ( July 1878 - May 1880) 115
Chapter 6
Mahler’s First Conducting Engagements: Bad Hall and Laibach
Das klagende Lied (ii) – The Beethoven Prize ( June 1880 - April 1882) 145
Chapter 7
The Saga Society – Vienna and Olmütz
Literary Affinities and Passions (April 1882 - May 1883) 171
Chapter 8
Mahler in Kassel (i) – Prussian Discipline and Bureaucracy – Johanna Richter
Der Trompeter von Säkkingen (May 1883 - August 1884) 195
Chapter 9
Mahler in Kassel (ii) – Conflicts and Passions – The Lieder eines
fahrenden Gesellen – The Kassel Festival (August 1884 - July 1885) 221
Chapter 10
Mahler in Prague – First Major Successes in the Opera House:
Don Giovanni, Rheingold, Walküre, Fidelio – Betty Frank
Beethoven’s Ninth – Conflict with Neumann ( 1885-1886) 247
Chapter 11
Mahler in Leipzig (i) – Rivalry with Nikisch
Nikisch’s Illness ( July 1886 - July 1887) 281
Chapter 12
Mahler in Leipzig (ii) – Die Drei Pintos, the First Symphony, and Todtenfeier
Meeting with Strauss – Marion von Weber – Departure from Leipzig
Return to Prague ( July 1887 - September 1888) 313
Chapter 13
Mahler as Director of the Royal Hungarian Opera (i)
Reorganisation of the Opera – Das Rheingold and Die Walküre
Death of Bernhard Mahler (September 1888 - May 1889) 347
Chapter 14
Mahler as Director of the Royal Hungarian Opera (ii) – Illness and
Personal Misfortunes – Deaths of Marie and Leopoldine Mahler
First Performance of the Symphonic Poem – First Crisis at the Opera
Journey to Italy – Hinterbrühl – Mahler’s Brothers and Sisters
(May 1889 - August 1890) 373
Chapter 15
Mahler as Director of the Royal Hungarian Opera (iii) – Meeting with Brahms
Cavalleria rusticana – Géza Zichy – Farewell to Hungary (1890-1891) 411
Chapter 16
Mahler in Hamburg (i) – The Hamburg Opera – Early Triumphs
Bernhard Pollini – Visit to Scandinavia (March - August 1891) 443
Chapter 17
Mahler in Hamburg (ii) – Bülow and the Todtenfeier – The Humoresken
The German Season in London (August 1891 - July 1892) 467
Chapter 18
Mahler in Hamburg (iii) – Berchtesgaden – The Cholera Epidemic
The Second Symphony – More Family Problems
Steinbach (August 1892 - August 1893) 499
Chapter 19
Mahler in Hamburg (iv) – Josef Bohuslav Foerster and The Bartered Bride
First Performance of the Humoresken – Contacts with Richard Strauss
The Titan Symphony in Hamburg and Weimar – Bülow’s Funeral
(September 1893 - June 1894) 537
Chapter 20
Mahler in Hamburg (v) – Bruno Walter – The Subscription Concerts
First Partial Performance of the Second Symphony
Death of Otto (June 1894 - May 1895) 573
Chapter 21
Mahler in Hamburg (vi) – The Third Symphony – First Complete Performance
of the Second Symphony – Anna von Mildenburg ( June - December 1895) 619
Chapter 22
Mahler in Hamburg (vii) – Emotional Storms – Failure in Berlin
First Movement of the Third Symphony ( January - July 1896) 651
Chapter 23
Mahler in Hamburg (viii) – Completion of the Third Symphony
Failure in Leipzig – Success in Berlin, Hamburg, and Dresden
The «Call to be God of the Southern Zones» ( July 1896 - February1897) 683
Chapter 24
Mahler in Hamburg (ix) – Mahler’s Conversion – Relations with Weingartner
Third Failure in Berlin – First International Tour – Departure from Hamburg
(February - April 1897) 717
Appendices
Introduction by Karlheinz Stockhausen (1972) 753
Catalogue of Mahler’s Works 755
Jewish Life in Bohemia and Moravia prior to Mahler’s Birth 767
Mahler’s Poems 771
Select Bibliography 779
Index of Mahler’s Compositions 785
Index of Names 789
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I think I'll await a remaindered copy and suggest that my university library pick up the title in the meantime.
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