Knud Martner

Knud Martner (* 1940 in Dalum near Odense ) is a Danish musicologist and Gustav Mahler researcher.

Life

Knud Martner is considered an institution of Mahler research. Among other things, he published Mahler's correspondence with his wife Alma . Martner also documented Mahler's rank and importance as an interpreter of his own and other music in detail, including the concert life in Vienna, which Mahler helped shape during his work at the Vienna Court Opera .

Honors

In 2007 Martner was awarded the gold medal by the International Gustav Mahler Society in Vienna for his contribution to research on the composer Mahler .

Publications (selection)

• Ferdinand Pfohl: Gustav Mahler. Impressions and memories from the Hamburg years 1892–1897. Published by Knud Martner. Musikalienhandlung Karl Dieter Wagner, Hamburg 1973, ISBN 3-921029-15-5 .
• Alma Mahler: Gustav Mahler. Memories and Letters. Edited with Donald Mitchell. John Murray, London 1973, ISBN 0-7195-2944-1 .
• Selected Letters of Gustav Mahler. Faber, London & Boston 1979, ISBN 0-571-08643-8 .
• Gustav Mahler in the memories of Natalie Bauer-Lechner. Edited in collaboration with Herbert Killian. Musikalienhandlung Karl Dieter Wagner, Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-921029-92-9 .
• Gustav Mahler in the concert hall: a documentation of his concert activities, 1870–1911. KM private printing, Copenhagen; Musikalienhandlung Karl Dieter Wagner, Hamburg 1985, DNB 994148445 .
• A happiness without rest. Gustav Mahler's letters to Alma. First complete edition. Edited in collaboration with Henry-Louis de La Grange and Günther Weiss. Siedler, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-88680-577-8 .
• Mahler's Concerts. Kaplan Foundation / Overlook Press, New York 2010, ISBN 978-1-59020-392-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Knud Martner in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Literature by and about Knud Martner in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GND 133684458