Seeing Mahler: Music and the Language of Antisemitism in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna

No-one doubts that Gustav Mahler''s tenure at the Vienna Court Opera from 1897-1907 was made extremely unpleasant by the antisemitic press. The great biographer, Henry-Louis de La Grange, acknowledges that ''it must be said that antisemitism was a permanent feature of Viennese life''. Unfortunately, the focus on blatant references to Jewishness has obscured the extent to which ''ordinary'' attitud...