Gustav Mahler
A dying fall: The Last Movement, by Robert Seethaler, reviewed
Gustav Mahler looks back on the pleasures and pains of the past from the windblown deck of SS Amerika on his final journey across the Atlantic
The agony of making music at Auschwitz
Anne Sebba explores the ethical questions that haunted members of the female orchestra obliged to play marching music to hurry fellow inmates to and from forced labour
Alma Mahler — maddening, mesmerising or plain malicious?
It must be rare for a popular song to have such a lasting influence on a posthumous reputation. However, this…
