Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. I. Tradition in a Modern Age: Bruckner and Mahler at the Fin de siècle
5. 1. Symphonic Idealism in Crisis 21
6. 2. Symphonic Conventions of a World Past 44
7. 3. Sensuality and Redemption 81
8. II. The Politics of Tradition: Mahler and Bruckner, 1914–1933
9. 4. Mahler’s Progressive Legacy and the Aestheticization of Violence 125
10. 5. Bruckner’s Nationalist Legacy and the Aestheticization of Space 167
11. III. Symphonic Traditions under National Socialism
12. 6. Symphonic Ambitions and Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler Symphony 209
13. 7. Symphonic Defeat 244
14. Notes 271
15. Index 343