Introduction

Part I: Tradition in a Modern Age: Bruckner and Mahler at the Fin de Siècle

1. Symphonic Idealism in Crisis

2. Symphonic Conventions of a World Past

3. Sensuality and Redemption

Part II: The Politics of Tradition: Mahler and Bruckner, 1914-1933

4. Mahler's Progressive Legacy and the Aestheticization of Violence

5. Bruckner's Nationalist Legacy and the Aestheticization of Space

Part III: Symphonic Traditions under National Socialism

6. Hindemith's Mathis der Maler Symphony and Symphony Ambitions under National Socialism

7. Symphonic Defeat

Notes

Index

Photo by Jen Frantz

Karen Painter is Associate Professor at the School of Music, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.