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This is a chapter from Alex Ross's groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, 'The Rest is Noise'.
The years before WWI were a golden age for German and Austrian classical music. The story of this period—and a way of life soon to end—is told through the intertwined careers of the two titans of early twentieth-century composing, Strauss and Mahler. Now a major festival running throughout 2013 at London's Southbank, ‘The Rest is Noise’ is an intricate commentary not just on the sounds that defined the century, but on art's troublesome dance with politics, social and cultural change.
The years before WWI were a golden age for German and Austrian classical music. The story of this period—and a way of life soon to end—is told through the intertwined careers of the two titans of early twentieth-century composing, Strauss and Mahler. Now a major festival running throughout 2013 at London's Southbank, ‘The Rest is Noise’ is an intricate commentary not just on the sounds that defined the century, but on art's troublesome dance with politics, social and cultural change.
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