Music of a LifeGustav Mahler at the Theatermuseum

"Gustav Mahler and Vienna"
"The exhibition ranges
from the education and training
of the fifteen-year-old prodigy

to the revolutionary reform
of opera he organised
together with the stage-designer,
Alfred Roller,

to the international successes
of the celebrated conductor
to the final return
of a terminally-ill man –

a broad survey
of the life and work
of this paradigmatic artistic personality;

shaped by the terrible tensions
inherent in the “Wiener Moderne”,
his influence continued to be felt
in the world of music long after his death." *

(* Quoted from
the Theatermuseum's
exhibition website)

The curators of this exhibition
- Reinhold Kubik and Thomas Trabitsch -
have put together a show of outstanding quality,
the installation and design by Blaich + Deluga
by themselves form a work of art

"Gustav Mahler and Vienna"
unfortunately is closed now.

*

Photographed
in July 2010 at the
Theatermuseum
Lobkowitzplatz
Vienna

"The Music of a Life"
is the title of a novella
by Andreï Makine


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© by Merisi
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