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Mahler’s Nietzsche
Mahler’s Nietzsche

Politics and Philosophy in the


Wunderhorn Symphonies

Leah Batstone

THE BOYDELL PRESS


© Leah Batstone 2023

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Cover image: Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach, Per Aspera ad Astra, 1892, shadow frieze, postcard
reproduction by Druck und Verlag von B. G. Teubner, Leipzig, 1911. Author’s collection.
Design: Toni Michelle
For Eric
Contents

List of Illustrations viii


List of Music Examples ix
Acknowledgments xi
Notes to the Reader xiii

Introduction: An Epoch-Making Influence 1


1 The Case of Wagner 12
2 The Crown of Laughter 35
3 The Gay Science 65
4 The Übermensch 103
5 Ecce Homo 135
Epilogue 156

Appendix I: Original Symphony Programs 159


Appendix II: Song Texts 163
Bibliography 173
Index 185
Illustrations

2.1 Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901), Self-Portrait with Death Playing the


Fiddle. 1872. Oil on canvas, 75 x 61 cm. Inv. A I 633. Photo credit:
bpk Bildagentur / Nationalgalerie, Berlin / Joerg P. Anders / ART
RESOURCE, NY. 53
4.1 Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), Symphony no. 3 in D minor, autograph
manuscript, 1896. Photographic credit: The Morgan Library &
Museum, New York, Robert Owen Lehman Collection, on Deposit. 109
4.2 “Die Auferstehung” by Karl Heinrich Graun, 1758. Published in
Chorbuch des “Sängerhain,” zweiter Band, Ausgabe B. Essen: G.D.
Baedeker, n.d. [1899]. International Music Score Library Project, CC
BY-SA 4.0. 120

The author and publisher are grateful to all the institutions and individuals listed
for permission to reproduce the materials in which they hold copyright. Every
effort has been made to trace the copyright holders; apologies are offered for any
omission, and the publisher will be pleased to add any necessary acknowledgement
in subsequent editions.
Music Examples

2.1 Symphony no. 4, movement I, primary theme, mm. 1–7. 45


2.2a Symphony no. 4, movement I, secondary theme in cello, mm. 38–52. 46
2.2b Symphony no. 4, movement I, secondary theme in oboe, mm. 41–46. 46
2.3 Symphony no. 4, movement I, mm.102–15. 47
2.4 Symphony no. 4, movement I, mm. 125–31. 50
2.5 Symphony no. 4, movement II, solo violin, mm. 1–22. 52
2.6 Symphony no. 4, movement II, violin I, mm 85–103. 54
2.7 Symphony no. 4, movement III, mm. 278–86 56
3.1 Symphony no.1, movement III, oboe and trumpet, mm. 39–42. 72
3.2 Symphony no.1, movement III, Volksweise melody, mm. 87–93 73
3.3 Symphony no.1, movement III, mm. 138–45. 74
3.4 “Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt,” clarinets, mm. 16–26. 76
3.5 “Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt,” mm. 40–52. 77
3.6a Symphony no. 3, movement III, mm. 20–28. 81
3.6b Symphony no. 3, movement III, mm. 12–19. 82
3.6c Symphony no. 3, movement III, mm. 3–11. 83
3.7 Symphony no. 3, movement III, flute and oboe, mm. 45–49. 83
3.8a Symphony no. 3, movement III, mm. 373–76. 84
3.8b Symphony no. 3, movement III, mm. 381–85. 85
3.9 Symphony no. 2, movement II, mm. 151–56. 88
3.10 Symphony no. 1, movement I, flute and piccolo, mm. 166–71. 91
4.1 Symphony no. 3, movement VI, chorale-like opening melody, mm. 1–9. 111
4.2 Symphony no. 3, movement VI, mm. 182–93. 112
4.3 Symphony no. 3, movement VI, flute solo, mm. 246–50. 114
4.4 Symphony no. 1, movement IV, secondary theme area, mm. 175–82. 117
x Music Examples

4.5 Symphony no. 1, movement IV, chorale theme, horn section,


mm. 388–95. 118
4.6a Symphony no. 1, movement I, nature theme, mm.18–21. 118
4.6b Symphony no. 1, movement IV, chorale theme (first line), mm. 388–91. 118
4.7 Symphony no. 2, movement V, mm. 673–88. 121
4.8a Symphony no. 2, movement V, horn and trumpets, mm. 40–54. 123
4.8b Symphony no. 2, movement V, horns, mm. 79–82. 123
4.8c Symphony no. 2, movement V, brass, mm. 163–67. 123
4.8d Symphony no. 2, movement V, brass, mm. 448–53. 124
4.9 Symphony no. 2, movement V, flute and piccolo, mm. 454–64. 124
5.1 Symphony no. 6, movement I, “Alma” theme, violins I and II,
mm. 76–86. 139
5.2a “Redemption” theme from Parsifal, prelude, mm.95–96. 142
5.2b Symphony no. 5, movement IV, mm. 206–10. 142
5.2c Symphony no. 7, movement I, mm. 118–21. 142
5.2d Symphony no. 8, movement II, mm. 219–26. 142
5.2e Symphony no. 10, movement V, mm. 353–58. 142
5.3 Symphony no. 7, movement IV, mm. 71–80. 145
5.4 Symphony no. 9, movement III, mm. 320–25. 146
5.5 Symphony no. 5, movement V, chorale, mm. 711–18. 149
Acknowledgments

T he genesis of this book might truly date as far back as the fall of 2007, the first
time I heard the opening of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. In the fifteen years
that have followed, Mahler’s music has continued to draw me back with the sin-
cerity, audacity, and inscrutability that struck me upon that first hearing. The next
important moment on this book’s journey came a year or so later when, as a double
major in political science and music, I was assigned Theodor W. Adorno’s The
Authoritarian Personality and Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy in the same semester.
It was then that I began to seriously consider the links between art music and polit-
ical and social movements. Finally, my first experience of real academic research
came while writing my senior thesis, in which I explored music’s social function in
the writings of Plato, Aristotle, and Friedrich Nietzsche. The thesis was overseen by
my then-political theory professor, ongoing mentor, and constant friend to whom
this book is dedicated, Eric MacGilvray.
In the intervening years, many individuals and institutions have contributed to
making this volume possible. First and foremost, I would like to thank the Editorial
Director at Boydell & Brewer, Michael Middeke, whose interest in and commitment
to this project allowed the book to come to fruition. I also thank Elizabeth Howard
for attending to my unending questions and Julia Cook for her guidance through the
production process. I extend my gratitude to David Volpe, Sue Martin, and Janet
Andrew for their careful assistance in preparing the final manuscript. I am grateful to
the anonymous reviewers selected by the press for their time and comments, which
have without a doubt improved the work. I also wish to thank J.P.E. Harper-Scott,
who has always believed in this book’s contributions and helped direct me to the
publisher where it has found its happy home.
The arguments presented here are the result of work that would not have been
possible without the institutional support I received from McGill University, par-
ticularly my dissertation advisor Steven Huebner, and committee members David
Brackett and Karin Bauer. Much of the research for this book was done in Vienna
thanks to the financial and intellectual support of a Fulbright-Mach Award funded
by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research and admin-
istered by Fulbright Austria (the Austrian-American Educational Commission). I
therefore wish to thank my Austrian fellowship sponsor Dr. Margarethe Wagner,
and the program director and program coordinator of Fulbright Austria during
my 2015-16 fellowship, Lonnie Johnson and Molly Roza respectively. Tremendous
assistance was received from the personnel of various libraries where I have
worked on this project, including the Vienna City Library (Wienbibliothek im
Rathaus), the archive of the University of Vienna, and the Austrian National
Library. Special acknowledgement goes to Christiane Mühlegger at the Vienna
xii Acknowledgments

Theater Museum and Drs. Elisabeth Dietrich-Schulz and Sieglinde Osiebe at the
Austrian Parliament Library.
I have been lucky to work with many of musicology’s foremost Mahler scholars,
each of whom has been a sounding board for the ideas contained in the following
pages. Among those who have been most important, Peter Franklin, my Master’s
thesis supervisor at the University of Oxford, has never ceased to encourage me to
pursue my interest in Mahler and contemporary politics. I must also thank Morten
Solvik and Stephen Hefling for the opportunity to delve deeply into the unpublished
manuscripts of Natalie Bauer-Lechner, and Vera Micznik, who provided invaluable
feedback. In addition, Jeremy Barham, Federico Celestini, Julian Johnson, Caroline
Kita, Marilyn McCoy, and Anna Stoll-Knecht have all, over the years, been thought-
ful interlocutors on the subject of Mahler. I am especially grateful to Arved Ashby,
who introduced me to Adorno’s musical writings and then spent a semester reading
“the Mahler book” with me while I was an undergraduate.
As this project became a book, Nicole Grimes, Ben Korstvedt, and Thomas
Peattie heroically and attentively read the entire manuscript, and I thank them for
their astute comments and advice. Other scholars who have contributed in impor-
tant ways to the development of my thinking about the content presented here
include Mark Berry, Mark Griffith, Margaret Knotley, and Christina Tarnopolsky.
Sections of the book have been presented at various conferences. I therefore
thank the organizers of the 2014 Royal Musical Association Annual Conference
in Leeds, the 2017 North American Nineteenth-Century Music Conference at
Vanderbilt University, and the 2018 Gustav Mahler Workshop in Toblach, where I
received useful feedback and stimulating discussion. I also extend my gratitude to
Thomas Kohut for the invitation to present a chapter of the book as part of the 2019
History Department Lecture Series at Williams College.
An earlier version of chapter 2 appeared as “‘A Perfectly Self-Contained
Tetralogy’: Mahler’s Tragicomic Inspirations,” in the Journal of the Royal Musical
Association 145, no. 2 (November 2020): 351-84. Parts of chapter 3 appeared in “A
Dance from Iglau: Gustav Mahler, Bohemia, and the Complexities of Austrian
Identity,” in Nineteenth-Century Music 44, no. 3: 169-86. I thank the editors of these
journals for granting me permission to reproduce portions of this material here.
I am deeply indebted to the close friends who have stood by me over the course of
this project. I thank all those who have accompanied me at some point on this jour-
ney, encouraged me in ways both big and small, and offered various kinds of support
from my undergraduate studies at the Ohio State University forwards. My deep-
est and most heartfelt gratitude goes to my parents, William Batstone and Sandra
Tanenbaum. This book would not exist without your patience, love, and wisdom,
for which I am grateful every day. Finally, I thank my husband, Rory McCluckie,
who has acted as editor, interlocutor, counselor, and listener for more than a decade.
With you, all things are possible.
Notes to the Reader

W ith regard to translations, I have used widely published English editions of


sources where available. In these instances, I have also included the location
of the passage in its original German publication. For sources only in German, and
for obscure and archival sources, all translations are my own unless otherwise indi-
cated. These instances also include the original German in the footnote.
Names of works follow the convention of their respective fields and appear in the
best-known version of the titles. Therefore, I have used English titles for Nietzsche’s
works and German titles for Mahler’s works, with the exception of the Second
Symphony, where “Resurrection” is used in place of “Auferstehung.”
Introduction: An Epoch-Making Influence

I n late 1891, Gustav Mahler wrote the following to his friend, Emil Freund: “In
the last few weeks I have been reading something so remarkable and strange that
it may very well have an epoch-making influence on my life.”1 He was reading the
works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Mahler thought seriously about the philosopher’s
writings often in the years prior to 1900 and although scholars have not ignored this
relationship – indeed Nietzsche’s name appears frequently in writings about Mahler
– discussions of his influence have been examined within narrow boundaries or in
service to other topics.2 Mahler’s emphasis on “an epoch-making influence on my
life” suggests that Nietzsche’s ideas had more than a passing effect and may offer an
important avenue for understanding the meaning of Mahler’s work and elements of
his musical style that has yet to be fully explored.
Mahler’s interest in Nietzsche has previously been the subject of only two mon-
ographs. Eveline Nikkels’s “O Mensch! Gib Acht!” Friedrich Nietzsches Bedeutung für
Gustav Mahler focuses largely on the two men as individuals and the compelling,
but mostly coincidental, commonalities of their lives.3 The first part catalogs these
parallels, including experiences of nature and music, as well as the interest and cor-
respondence with Nietzsche of Mahler’s university peers. The second part looks
at Nietzsche’s influence on Mahler’s symphonies, but, with the exception of her
Nietzschean reading of the finale of the Second Symphony, lacks much discussion
of the music itself, looking instead at texts, musical and epistolary. Pathos, Parodie,

1 Letter to Emil Freund, late Autumn 1891, Selected Letters of Gustav Mahler, ed. Knud
Martner, trans. Eithne Wilkins & Ernst Kaiser and Bill Hopkins (London: Faber & Faber,
1979), 139–40. German edition: Gustav Mahler: Briefe, ed. Herta Blaukopf (Vienna: Paul
Zsolnay, 1996), 119.
2 Mahler’s Third Symphony, by nature of its text setting from Thus Spoke Zarathustra,
always leads to a consideration of the composer’s relationship to Nietzsche (Franklin,
Micznik, Floros). Scholars interested in Mahler’s philosophical and literary worlds
frequently consider Nietzsche as part of a genealogy of influences that also included
Richard Wagner, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Gustav Fechner (Barham, Solvik, Johnson,
Celestini). Books devoted to other facets of Mahler’s musical language often mention
Nietzsche tangentially, acknowledging but not probing the philosopher’s importance to
understanding Mahler’s music (Peattie, Monahan). Mahler biographers, too, frequently
touch upon the philosopher’s appearance in the composer’s letters and music during
the years between his time at the university of Vienna and the completion of the Third
Symphony (Franklin, Mitchell, Blaukopf, de La Grange). Even books from the fields
of cultural history and German studies have explored Mahler’s interest in Nietzsche as
part of broader discussions of the influence of both figures (McGrath, Niekerk, Johnson,
Golomb).
3 Eveline Nikkels,“O Mensch! Gib Acht!” Friedrich Nietzsches Bedeutung für Gustav Mahler
(Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1989).
2 Mahler’s Nietzsche

Provokation: Authentizität versus Medienskepsis bei Friedrich Nietzsche und Gustav


Mahler by Albrecht Dammeyer takes a different approach, eschewing all personal
references and focusing instead on how Mahler’s compositions realize a view of
music, especially the use of parody, described by Nietzsche. Dammeyer’s works give
equal weight to an investigation of Nietzsche’s musical aesthetics and an exploration
of Mahler’s composition. The first section collects and interrogates all discussions of
music in Nietzsche’s writings, including the early works, those concerning Wagner,
and passages of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The second section considers examples
from Mahler’s Third and Fourth Symphonies, the first movement of the Sixth, and
the finale of the Ninth. The book’s aim is to define Nietzsche’s philosophy of music
and then trace its elements in Mahler’s works.
Both these interpretations proceed independent of any evidence for how Mahler
understood Nietzsche. Mahler and Nietzsche themselves bear some responsibility
for this lacuna. The former’s comments about the philosopher are pithy, sporadic,
and even occasionally contradictory. The latter, meanwhile, is notorious for the mal-
leability of his writing so that determining his significance to the composer poses
several obstacles. Nevertheless, it is this very gap that this study will fill in an effort
to understand better how Mahler’s reading of Nietzsche helped shape his distinctive
musical identity.

The Mahler Problem


For scholars of Mahler’s music, the challenge has been not only the paucity of
the composer’s comments on Nietzsche but their tone, which appears to change
over time and depending on the source reporting them. Letters, such as the one
addressed to Freund in 1891, reveal Mahler to be an enthusiastic reader of Nietzsche,
and Mahler frequently used Nietzschean terms to describe his early works to friends.
He wrote to Annie Mincieux in 1896 that the final movement of the work can be
thought of as, “God. Or if you like, the Übermensch!”4 For a short time the composer
also considered giving the symphony the title, “My Gay Science” (“Meine fröhliche
Wissenschaft”), an explicit allusion to Nietzsche’s The Gay Science.5 Most substan-
tive is the composer’s setting of the “Midnight Song” from Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke
Zarathustra in his Third Symphony. The Alma Mahler Werfel Collection, donated
to the University of Pennsylvania in 1965 by Anna Mahler, is the complete library
of Mahler’s wife at the time of her death and contains books belonging to Gustav
(indicated by his own markings or inscriptions), including the complete works of
Nietzsche, each volume of which was read and studied.6

4 See letter to Annie Mincieux, early November 1896. Gustav Mahler, Unknown Letters
(Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1983), 122–23.
5 Natalie Bauer-Lechner, Recollections of Gustav Mahler, trans. Dika Newlin (London:
Faber & Faber, 1980), 41. German edition: Natalie Bauer-Lechner, Erinnerungen an
Gustav Mahler (Hamburg, Karl Dieter Wagner, 1984), 36.
6 Jeremy Barham, “Mahler the Thinker: The Books of the Alma Mahler-Werfel Collection,”
in Perspectives on Gustav Mahler, ed. Jeremy Barham, 37–151 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005).
Barham acknowledges that exact knowledge of which volumes belonged to Mahler
Introduction 3

Mahler’s enthusiasm for Arnim and Brentano’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn also
links his aesthetics to Nietzsche’s, albeit in more abstract ways. In The Birth of
Tragedy, Nietzsche suggests that this folk poetry might provide the foundations for
a revival of ancient tragedy.7 For Nietzsche, the Wunderhorn collection was a par-
ticularly powerful example of the way in which the folk song served as “the musical
mirror of the world.”8 Mahler himself reported something similar about the collec-
tion, writing, “I have devoted myself heart and soul to that poetry (which is essen-
tially different from any other kind of ‘literary poetry,’ and might almost be called
something more like Nature and Life – in other words, the sources of all poetry
– than art).”9 In 1896 Mahler was even reading the Wunderhorn poetry alongside
Nietzsche, according to his friend the violist Natalie Bauer-Lechner, Mahler’s clos-
est confidante in the years before he met his wife. “With his coffee and cigarette, he
reads a little. (Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Goethe and Nietzsche occupied him at that
time – though he would have nothing to do with newspapers).”10
The composer furthermore appears to have served for a time as a true disciple
of Nietzsche, disseminating his writings through prose and conversation. In a letter
from Budapest to Bertha Löhr, dated January 1891, Mahler added the postscript,
“And this very day, too, a volume of Nietzsche goes into the post for you. You will
then, I hope, cease to pelt me with mean filth.”11 Bruno Walter recalled that his own
interest in Nietzsche came from Mahler: “It was he that aroused my interest in
Nietzsche, with whose Also sprach Zarathustra he was deeply occupied at the time.”12
The time that Walter is referring to is most likely 1894 – his next recollection of
Mahler is that the composer gave him a copy of Schopenhauer’s works for Christmas
that year. In an essay about his uncle’s Second and Third Symphonies, Mahler’s
nephew reported that the composer used to read from Zarathustra to friends and
family in the period when he was writing the early works, the years from 1888 to

himself is difficult to determine, but he catalogs all the books from before 1911 on pages
46–132.
7 Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music, in Basic Writings of
Nietzsche, translated by Walter Kaufmann (New York: Random House, 2000 [1872]), 6.
8 Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, 6, 53.
9 Letter to Ludwig Karpath, 2 March 1905, Selected Letters of Gustav Mahler, 284. German
edition: Gustav Mahler: Briefe, ed. Herta Blaukopf (Vienna: Paul Zsolnay, 1996), 322.
10 Natalie Bauer-Lechner, Recollections of Gustav Mahler, translated by Dika Newlin
(London: Faber & Faber, 1980), 73. German edition: Natalie Bauer-Lechner, Erinnerungen
an Gustav Mahler (Hamburg: Karl Dieter Wagner, 1984), 73.
11 Letter to Bertha from January 1891, Gustav Mahler: Briefe, ed. Herta Blaukopf (Vienna:
Paul Zsolnay, 1992), 418. What exactly is meant by this comment is unclear.
12 Bruno Walter, Theme and Variations: An Autobiography, trans. James A. Galston, (New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946), 85–86
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