Das Mahler album (German Edition)

A fine copy in a very good dust jacket. First edition. Cloth. 4to. 310 pp. Illus. with 311 b/w plates and reproductions. The German language version of this definitive collection of photographs of the composer and conductor Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Selected and edited by Gilbert Kaplan, the images are enhanced by photographs of Mahler's family, his homes and the opera houses in which he worked and by a rich selection of drawings, paintings and sculpture. With a detailed chronology and a comprehensive listing of all his compositions.