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  • Chapter 18 - Reception in Vienna

  • from Part III - Creation
  • Edited by Charles Youmans, Pennsylvania State University
  • Book:
    Mahler in Context
    Published online:
    18 December 2020
    Print publication:
    19 November 2020, pp 154-161

  • Summary

    Gustav Klimt’s Mahlerian knight in his Beethoven Frieze (1902), produced for the opening of the Secession building, represented Mahler as an allegorical, even mythical figure, building on the painter’s already a considerable reputation for allegorical paintings on topics ranging from philosophy and jurisprudence to love. A remarkable feature of Mahler reception in Vienna in the early 1900s is that so many other creative artists and intellectuals in the composer’s orbit likewise framed his impact on music or society in allegorical terms. These included figures who had known the composer personally since youth, and others who barely knew him at all, and in both groups were thinkers not otherwise prone to public displays of romantic imagining. Three main figures are considered here – the composer Arnold Schoenberg, the musicologist Guido Adler, and the critic Max Brod – who together established the generally current image of Mahler as a saint, a visionary, and a cementer and proclaimer of community.