After mahler britten weill henze and romantic redemption 9799 c author stephen downes royal holloway university of london date published october 2013 availability available format hardback isbn 9781107008717 rate review 9799 c hardback add to cart add to wishlist other available formats ebook looking for an examination copy if you are interested in the title for . Download citation after mahler britten weill henze and romantic redemption gustav mahler is often thought of as one of the last of the romantic composers and as a result his influence on . Despite their initial admiration being notably dissonant with the prevailing zeitgeist britten in 1930s england weill in 1920s germany and henze in 1950s germany and italy downes argues that mahlers music struck a profound chord with them because of the powerful way in which it raised and intensified dystopian and utopian complexes and probed the possibility of fulfilment or redemption . After mahler britten weill henze and romantic redemption by stephen downes cambridge cambridge university press 2013 xiv 276 p isbn 9781107008717 hardcover 99 isbn 9781107453562 e book 79 music examples bibliography index. In after mahler downes redeems late romantic music in a different way by taking it at face value as a form of romanticism specifically he examines mahler alongside three twentieth century composers benjamin britten kurt weill and hans werner henze who like mahler and many other composers stand astride typical aesthetic categories like romantic and modern downes selected them